William D. Jones on Nostr: I don't love that the "1.44" in "1.44 MB" floppy isn't actually either "Megabyte" or ...
I don't love that the "1.44" in "1.44 MB" floppy isn't actually either "Megabyte" or "Mebibyte", but rather it's 1.44 "thousand Kibibytes".
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