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Originally Posted by Alien
That's the IT equivalent of political correctness. MB/GB has always been binary, not SI. The only people who use the SI versions are dishonest companies [e.g. making HDDs sound bigger than they are] & the IT equivalent of the political correct crowd.
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it is 'caveat emptor' though - or it used to be, however when that happened a 'big' hard disk was 20,000,000 bytes, so comparison was easier
my first hard drive at work was 10MB - 10,000,000 bytes, it seemed massive, then - I wish I still had it because it was so massive 5¼" wide & about 2¼" thick,that it made a great door stop
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an IBM XT with cga graphics
