"preach". RAM is sort of relevant to this though. Clock speed is base10. Line speed is base10. Storage is base10. But ram is base2, because it's almost always

"preach". RAM is sort of relevant to this though. Clock speed is base10. Line speed is base10. Storage is base10. But ram is base2, because it's almost always constructed as a grid. Tapes are essentially unitless, how long is a piece of string. The earliest magnetic harddrive I can find is the IBM 350 storing 5 million 6-bit characters. Where 5 million is 5 and a bunch of zeros. it's not 4.75 .. mibilion? Where things get weird, is when we start dividing tracks into sectors. For convenience we went for sectors that were convenient to page into memory. Every harddrive since that has had a base10 number of base2 sectors. From that point onwards, you can be team base10 or team base2, they both end up wrong. And this is how we end up with the 1.44MB floppy, where 1.44MB is 2880 * 512kb. Or 1.44 * 1000 * 1024.