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kilobyte

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Also known as kB

thumb|Board of the Tangerine Microtan 65, featuring 1024 bytes of RAM. First sold in 1979.

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A kilobyte is a unit of computer storage equal to 1,024 bytes, as exemplified by the Tangerine Microtan 65 computer from 1979, which had 1 kilobyte of RAM. It matters because it's a standard measurement used to describe how much information a computer can store or process, helping people understand the capacity of early computers and digital devices.

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Key facts

Unit.name
kilobyte
Unit.standard
Unit derived from bit
Unit.quantity
Digital information, data size
Unit.symbol
kB

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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Definitions and usage
  • Decimal (1000 bytes)
  • Binary (1024 bytes)
  • Use of term
  • Data examples
  • See also
  • References

thumb|Board of the Tangerine Microtan 65, featuring 1024 bytes of RAM. First sold in 1979.

The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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