The first home computers were all 8-bit machines, and memory sizes were therefore always specified in terms of 8-bit bytes. (This use then continued as the hom

The first home computers were all 8-bit machines, and memory sizes were therefore always specified in terms of 8-bit bytes. (This use then continued as the home computer market grew, and later completely dominated the field as mainframes declined.) But earlier, non-home, computers were as I described.