What is the mean of 170 k

[vyapak]

please tell me about "K". i read it in a internet page but i could not under stud about k for example :- Storage: internal 170K floppy drive
so i want to know about it "K". i know about B,KB,MB,GB etc but what is k i don't know.

 

[ko888]

Kilo - (symbol: k, lowercase) is a unit prefix denoting multiplication of the unit by one thousand.

 

[jaquith]

The '170K' is probably meant to read as 170KB {Kilobyte} = ~0.16602MB = 174080 Bytes; 1KB (Kilobyte) = 1024 Bytes. It's a unit of 'size' or specifically Bytes.