only when the 8 bit home computer era started was the 1024 convention firmly established.

That's the microcomputer era that has defined the vast majority of our relationship with computers.

IMO, having lived through this era, the only people pushing 1,000 byte kilobytes were storage manufacturers, because it allows them to bump their numbers up.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-03-fi-seaga...