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    64 Megabits is 8 Megabytes.
    – Jon Custer
    Commented May 1, 2020 at 15:21
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    They possibly did mean 'megabit', especially when it came to 16-bit consoles where cart size was very often discussed that way, probably stemming from the marketing departments being economical with the truth and users not knowing the difference. There was a thing at the time where PC owners would point out that no, your N64 game isn't actually on a 512MB cartridge, console peasant :)
    – Alan B
    Commented May 1, 2020 at 15:24
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    Given that consoles weren't such a big deal in Europe prior to the Gameboy and Mega Drive — the Master System was a decent seller but those two were the watershed — perhaps it's just that there wasn't any real ambiguity? The pump-up-the-numbers labelling of 'megabits' wasn't really used by anyone in the 1980s home computer world.
    – Tommy
    Commented May 1, 2020 at 15:27
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    @Tommy Definitely Amiga\ST\Archimedes etc users talked in MB meaning megabytes.
    – Alan B
    Commented May 1, 2020 at 15:29
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    How are you surprised by this if, quoting, you said: "Yes, I also know about the "MiB" stuff, but it never seemed to be used by anyone."? That's the same thing: not concording on symbolism.
    – Margaret Bloom
    Commented May 2, 2020 at 11:13