A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems

[Fred Cisin]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Jules Richardson wrote:
> [1] Anyone know who it was, anyway? I first saw it in the hard disk industry
> somewhere around 1997 or so, purely as a marketing tool to make one
> manufacturer's drives look bigger than their competitors.

Late 1970's, early 1980's.  Or BEFORE.
There were a few marketing types bragging that their microcomputers had
65.536K of memory (v the competition at only 64K?)