Editing Kilobyte (section)

==Use of term==
* The [[Shugart Associates|Shugart]] SA-400 5{{1/4}}-inch [[floppy disk]] (1976) held 109,375&nbsp;bytes unformatted,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/SA400/SA400_Index.htm |title=SA400 minifloppy |publisher=Swtpc.com |date=2013-08-14 |access-date=2014-03-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527094602/http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/SA400/SA400_Index.htm |archive-date=2014-05-27 }}</ref> and was advertised as "110 Kbyte", using the 1000 convention.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/SA400/SA400_Datasheet.pdf |title=Shugart Associates SA 400 minifloppy TM Disk Drive |access-date=2011-06-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608195322/http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/SA400/SA400_Datasheet.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-08 }}</ref>  Likewise, the 8-inch [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] RX01 floppy (1975) held 256,256&nbsp;bytes formatted, and was advertised as "256k".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/disc/rx01/EK-RX01-MM-002_maint_Dec76.pdf |title=RXS/RX11 floppy disk system maintenance manual |access-date=2011-06-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110423194129/http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/disc/rx01/EK-RX01-MM-002_maint_Dec76.pdf |archive-date=2011-04-23 }}</ref>  On the other hand, the [[Tandon Corporation|Tandon]] 5{{1/4}}-inch [[double density|DD]] floppy format (1978) held 368,640 (which is 360×1024) bytes, but was advertised as "360&nbsp;KB", following the 1024 convention.
* Early home computer systems would often advertise using the 1024 convention, hence the naming of the [[Commodore 64]], [[Commodore 128]], and the [[Amstrad CPC 464]].
* On modern systems, all versions of [[Microsoft Windows]] divide by 1024 and represent a 65,536-byte file as "64&nbsp;KB".<ref name="auto"/> Conversely, [[Mac OS X Snow Leopard]] and newer represent this as 66&nbsp;kB, rounding to the nearest 1000&nbsp;bytes;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419 |title=How OS X and iOS report storage capacity |publisher=Support.apple.com |date=2013-07-01 |access-date=2014-03-25 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304015219/http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419 |archive-date=2014-03-04 }}</ref> file sizes are reported with decimal prefixes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419 |title=How Mac OS X reports drive capacity |publisher=Apple Inc |date=2009-08-27 |access-date=2009-10-16 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091222235620/http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419 |archive-date=2009-12-22 }}</ref>
* {{As of|2016|post=,}} the binary interpretation was still used in marketing and billing by some telecommunication companies, such as [[Vodafone]],<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Vodafone Ireland|title=3G/GPRS data rates|url=https://www.vodafone.ie/planscosts_bus/data/|access-date=26 October 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026232743/https://www.vodafone.ie/planscosts_bus/data/|archive-date=26 October 2016}}</ref> [[AT&T]],<ref>{{cite web |publisher=AT&T |title=Data Measurement Scale |url=http://www.att.com/support_static_files/KB/KB24648.html |access-date=26 October 2016 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[Orange S.A.|Orange]]<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Orange Romania|title=Internet Mobile Access|url=https://www.orange.ro/recharge/internet.html|access-date=26 October 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026234911/https://www.orange.ro/recharge/internet.html|archive-date=26 October 2016}}</ref> and [[Telstra]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Telstra|title=Our Customer Terms|page=7|url=https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/personal/consumer-advice/pdf/intl-roaming.pdf|access-date=26 October 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410020355/https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/personal/consumer-advice/pdf/intl-roaming.pdf|archive-date=10 April 2017}}</ref>