How big is a Star Trek Kiloquad?
A Kiloquad in Star Trek is a unit of memory like Gigabyte today. The Star Trek writers never defined exactly how big it is in relation to today's memory. That was intentional, to keep all the geeks like me off their back. However, they did say that one "Isolinear Chip" (a memory card roughly the size of today's USB memory keys) contained 2.15 Kiloquads of data.
Moore's Law is an observation that computer capacity doubles roughly every two years. In January 2011 the largest commonly available USB memory keys hold 256Gb of data. I used Moore's Law to extend this into Star Trek time (2365) and found that a USB key (or isolinear chip) would hold 2215 bytes of data. I found that an amazing coincidence because 215 is exactly 100 times the number of kiloquads the show says an isolinear chip holds.
So my assumption is that a Kiloquad is a logarithmic scale. 1 Kiloquad is 2100 bytes, 2 kiloquads is 2200 bytes, etc.
For my full detailed explanation see http://homepage.usask.ca/~lowey/kiloquad.html.
