kilobyte
Sign in to savethumb|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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7 sectionsContents
- 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.