>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