The picture of Windows 1.0 from 1985
it says Disk Free Space 30024K
What? They had 30 megabyte hard drives back then?
Yeah, 30MB was considered large but not unheard of. You really paid through the nose for it, too.
LOL- I remember my neighbour telling me when we finally got looking at computers “Oh you’ll never need more than so and so megabytes”
Today, games take up gigabytes- and terabyte drives actually fill up fast if you have video or photo work-
Yeah, Seagate had (I believe) the Seagate 238. That might have used Rll compression to get 30 mb out of a 20mb Seagate 225. There was also the Seagate 251 for 40 Mb. Those were half-height drives. If you went full height, companies like Micropolis, Priam and Core would sell you drives with much greater capacity.
Yep. My first hard drive was 10MB.