[CurlyDave]

I remember when a 5 meg hd was a thing to have.

A friend and I bought 10 gig hard drives together -- the first ones we each had ever owned. He asked me: "How are we ever going to fill these up?"

[freedomlover]

A 5 MB hard disk drive from Apple cost $3,500 in 1981. I think it had gone down to $2000 by 1986.

[Real Cynic No More]

My first was an IBM PC clone. With 40 K of hard ram. 2 - 5 1/4 inch external floppy disk drives - one for the operating system, the other for programs and data. The first time sharing mainframe I worked on was a GE 400 with 28 K core, half of which was reserved for the operating system, the remainder for any programs and swapping data in and out.we transmitted data via punched tape.

[DouglasKC]

I remember when a 5 meg hd was a thing to have. A friend and I bought 10 gig hard drives together -- the first ones we each had ever owned. He asked me: "How are we ever going to fill these up?"

When I helped my sister pick out her first pc in the late 80's I told her the same thing about her 20MB drive. I said you'll NEVER fill that up.

[Yollopoliuhqui]

You used to be able to double the capacity of a 5meg MFM hard drive with a special kind of reformatting. Yes 5meg. I ran my SF Bay Area conspiracy BBS “Baby Brain” off it using Mustang BBS software and a 1200 baud modem. Ever try to create a text message using Edlin? Kinda like playing Twister with two broke legs.