Mega-bytes aren’t what they used to be.
Exactly.
First PC had dual floppy drives. Bought and installed a 30 meg hard drive and was living large.
The first hard drive I remember seeing was 5 MB and cost a small fortune. The first Gig drive ad I saw (in Infoworld I think) was ten grand. The first terabyte drive I saw was $400 at Staples, just setting out on the shelf.
terabyte sandisk site:youtube.com
The 2nd Computer We had back in the 1980’s at the Autoparts Store had a 10mb HDD that was an 18” Fixed Platter and there were ODD and EVEN Removable Mirroring Platters also 10mb. It required Both Platters to Boot up. It also had 2, 8” Flexible Floppies that were used for Data Backup (also ODD/EVEN) and required 8 to 10 Floppies.
The CPU Cabinet was 7’ tall, 3’ wide and 4’ deep.
The Salesman told Us We could operate 4 Stores with that Machine HA!!!! It would barely run 1 Store with 4 CRT’s, 1 Tractor Feed single color Black ribbon Okidata 8.5” Invoice Printer and 1 Tractor Feed single Black ribbon Wide Paper Report Printer. All Peripherals were run on Serial Cables.
I learned to Type on the Computer Keyboard not on a Typewriter.