Comment by da_chicken

No, just that confusing the two was ubiquitous at the time 14.4k, 28k, and 56k modems were the standard.

Like it was more common than confusing Kbps and KBps.

I mean, the 3.5" floppy disk could store 1.44 MB... and by that people meant the capacity was 1,474,560 bytes = 1.44 * 1024 * 1000. Accuracy and consistency in terminology has never been particularly important to marketing and advertising, except marketing and advertising is exactly where most laypersons first learn technical terms.