[Red Badger]

I remember buying a mail order HD, a whopping 40 MB $400, to put in my old Turbo XT. I wondered, “What in the world will I ever fill this up with?”.......

[KevinB]

I remember buying a mail order HD, a whopping 40 MB $400, to put in my old Turbo XT. I wondered, “What in the world will I ever fill this up with?”.......

Same here. It was 1984 and I had just taken delivery of an XT clone with two 5-1/4" floppy drives and a 20 meg hard drive and an Epson near letter quality dot-matrix printer. I clearly remember the feeling of sitting at my desk after setting it up knowing that I would never need to buy another piece of computer equipment.

[Balding_Eagle]

Yeah, I probably bought that wame HD.

Wait, it was $400 for the upgrade from the basic HD. I still have that catalog somewhere.

Yeah, and I thought that HD woud last for years too.