Computer storage has traditionally been measured in kilobytes, then megabytes, and now usually gigabytes.

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Sure, he could get 650 kilobytes a second or more from a cable connection.

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The original Mac had 128 kilobytes of memory and no hard disk drive.

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Windows 1.0 only required a minimum of 256 kilobytes (KB), two double-sided floppy disk drives, and a graphics adapter card.

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Websites that were once just 50 kilobytes of text and tiny pictures now come with music, video and animated graphics.

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That's precisely what I paid in 1985 for my first Macintosh, with its small black-and-white screen, 512 kilobytes of memory and no hard disk.

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The chip, developed by the Memory Spot research team at HP, is 2-4mm square and current versions can hold up to 512 kilobytes of data.

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Inside the brick are a fairly powerful microprocessor, a Bluetooth radio, a tinny speaker and enough memory to store a mingy 118 kilobytes of user programs.

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Verizon claimed the top spot on both its 4G and 3G network, providing download speeds of 414 kilobytes per second (kbps) on 3G and 4290 kbps on 4G.

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This packet of data (usually about four kilobytes of code) is then embedded within the file, and a digital watermark is inserted into the newly created space left behind by the compression process.

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