>Unfortunately, our bean counters started using 60K for $60,000. When the >mainframe 3380 came out they decided to start counting disk in 1000s and >1000000s. This has just perpetuated on for disk to make it easy for people >to calculate the space required because data records are measured in base 10 >not base 2. So, we are stuck with it. TSM uses the open systems >calculation, 1024.
Some businesses further confuse things by internally using the letter M to denote 1000, in unit quantities in satisfying orders. They should be required to perform all their math in Roman numerals. Richard Sims, BU
