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Old Yesterday, 02:42 PM   #61
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Originally Posted by apastuszak View Post
Hell, the IEC redefined the GB, MB, etc in decimal numbers, to match what drive makers were using. So this is the drive manufacturers pushing the industry in a negative direction forf their benefit.
They were always decimal. Purely Computer Memory that used erroneous 1024.

On many file browsers you can choose true 1000 multiple or the Memory originated 1024 (Address lines 8 = 256, 9 = 512, 10 = 1024. Early RAM was called 1K but was really 1024).
K was 1000 before computers existed!
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