[thirst4truth]

I remember when I got that first “Disk full error” on that MASSIVE 10 Meg hard drive. That was a shocker!

We sold computers for a living in the 80's and 90's. Our first was in 1982, a dual floppy, don't remember how much ram and a 10" orange monitor, cost $5,000. Everybody we met wanted one, so we became a dealer for a brand, then we built them ourselves for almost 20 years. High end graphics and cad systems, many of them we custom built for the programmers at Microsoft.

I remember when in about 1983 or 84 we put a 5MB hard drive in a dual floppy machine. Everybody that came into our store and saw it, said, "what would you need all that storage for?" Lol, still laugh about it today.

[FreedomPoster]

The hard drive event would have been in about ‘85. That was my employer’s PC that we’d upgraded from dual floppy to single floppy and the HDD.

I bought an original IBM-PC 5150 in the Spring of ‘82 on a student discount plan. Took out a small loan, I think the system was about $3500. 2 FDDs, 64k RAM soldered to the motherboard, 5151 green screen monitor and card. Another 64k on a Quadram Quadboard that also got me a serial port, a parallel port, and a clock. Epson MX-80 dot matrix printer.

Those were the days! Hey, I no longer had to go to the computer center on campus!

[daniel1212]

I remember when in about 1983 or 84 we put a 5MB hard drive in a dual floppy machine. Everybody that came into our store and saw it, said, "what would you need all that storage for?" Lol, still laugh about it today.

I had a 80MB HDD once and thought I would never need that much. And the cost. Now a 32GB flash drive can be less $10.