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gigabyte

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Gigabyte (noun) means a unit of computer data equal to a thousand megabytes.

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A unit of computer data equal to a thousand megabytes.

"The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage is a disk storage device with a storage capacity of 2.5 gigabytes (billion bytes) per unit, an increase of almost four times the capacity of the IBM 3350 Direct Access Storage." — IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Description and User's Guide, IBM (1981)

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