“My first HDD was a 40MB Seagate”
First one I ever bought was for our IBM AT (bigger brother to the PC). A huge metal can that held an astounding 5 megs, and only cost $1800+. Of course at the time, money wasn’t a concern because after all, nobody could ever fill up 5 megs. And compared to those big 8” floppies that only held 180k, we were now in the big leagues!
I remember those. We bought quite a few to sell with our applications - healthcare financial planning (really Medicare reimbursement planning) systems. It was still cheaper, faster, and more reliable than the IBM mainframe systems it replaced. More dollars in our pockets, heheh.
The first hard drive I worked with held 32K words of 12 bits each, so that would be 48 KBytes. It was head-per-track, so it didn’t have any moving arm.
I think it cost us about $6000.