Mark Griffin wrote:
I believe for computer uses there are 1024 Kilobytes in a Megabyte. I am not sure why it is not 1000, like it is for everything else.Computers are on the base 8 counting method in other words multiples of 8. 8 x 128 = 1024
not a very techie answer, but maybe the references that the previous poster had explains it better.
charles lenington
Oklahoma City Computer Club, Macintosh Study Group leader
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