Remember when hard disks were the size of cargo containers? If not, the picture above — from 1956 — should refresh your memory. Disks with multi-million byte capacity have been used since 1956, long before there were standard binary prefixes (Thanks, David P)

Remember when hard disks were the size of cargo containers? If not, the picture above — from 1956 — should refresh your memory.

Disks with multi-million byte capacity have been used since 1956, long before there were standard binary prefixes