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It must be mentioned that early PC hard drives actually did have (often even slightly more than) the correct binary size. The "10MB" model that was widely used
by userbinator 3y ago
It must be mentioned that early PC hard drives actually did have (often even slightly more than) the correct binary size. The "10MB" model that was widely used actually had a capacity of 10653696 bytes.
Don't get me started on the -i prefixes, they sound absolutely stupid.
- rob74 3y agoWhen I was young, a "gib" was the stuff that appeared when you hit a monster (or yourself) at close range with the rocket launcher in Doom (https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Gibs https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Gibs).
- WithinReason 3y agoWith 1.44 MB floppy discs the size of a MB was 1024*1000 bytes