IBM 029 progress

I rememebr seeing a 2.7kF (yes, kilofarad) capactior in a catalogue, but I think it's now been discontinued... I've never seen anythlng larger. The reason MF (or MFD) was used for microfarad was, I guess, they couldn't print/stamp lower case or greek letters onto the components. I've also seem MMFD (micro micro farad) for what is more commonly called pF. I guess this is one reason why mF (millifarad (1000uF)) is not commonly used. It would casue too much confusion with the old MF. Anyone else rememebr an upside-down Omega being used for megohms? And I am sure I've seen 'M' being used for 1000 In resistor values in some old service manuals (maybe RCA). Caused a lot of confusion to me at first (why does this valve have a 47 meg resistor feeding the screen grid??? Oh, they mean 47k..) -tony