Noun
a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes
a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes
Source: WordNetAny type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive. Kevin Mitnick
It was a real book-onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent. Daniel Abraham
A common usage has been to designate one megabyte as main (2 20 B), a measurement that conveniently expresses the binary multiples inherent in digital computer memory architectures. Source: Internet
At the end of development, Naka admitted that the cycle took longer than expected because of the team's inexperience with Saturn hardware and uncertainty about utilising the full 560 megabyte space on the CD-ROM. Source: Internet
By multiplying a 64-KB address by 16, the 20-bit address could address a total of one megabyte (1,048,576 bytes) which was quite a large amount for a small computer at the time. Source: Internet
Files were meant to be stored on a small amount (one megabyte) of internal flash memory 'on the road' and transferred using serial or parallel links, memory flashcards or external (and externally powered) floppy disk to a desktop ST once back indoors. Source: Internet