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Re:Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes by pdw on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @01:29PM (#46875035)
Even then it was not universal. For example, that Apple I ad that got posted a few days ago mentioned that "the system is expandable to 65K". https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Apple_1_...
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Re:Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes by kstrauser on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:39PM (#46876955)
Someone here the other day said that it could accept 64KB of RAM plus 1KB of ROM, for 65KB total memory.

I don't know if that's correct, but at least it'd explain the mismatch.

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Re:Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes by wvenable on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:04PM (#46875630)
Seems like a typo given that the ad contains many mentions of K (8K, 32K) and they're all of the 1024 variety.
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Re:Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes by duskwuff on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:11PM (#46875719)
If you're using base 10, you can get "8K" and "32K" by dividing by 10 and rounding down. The 1024/1000 distinction only becomes significant at 65536.
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Re:Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes by wvenable on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:16PM (#46875795)
Still the advertisement is filled with details like the number of chips, the number of pins, etc. If you're dealing with chips and pins, it's always going to base-2.
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