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[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know you're joking, but that first Kb definition makes me grind my teeth!

1.44 floppy disks can store, well, 1.44 MEGAbytes. So how can 1 kg of floppy disks can just store 1 KB?

[–] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Thank you for your compliment. I love it. The floppy disk is 1.44 non-freedom MB, not 0.015264 miles of CD drives.