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		bcrl 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? To make things even more confusing, the high-density floppy introduced on the Amiga 3000 stored 1760 KiB

kstrauser 1 day ago [–]

At least there it stored exactly 3,520 512-byte sectors, or 1,760 KB. They didn't describe them as 1.76MB floppies.

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