2) Another job mid-1970s, the computer staff would keep all the failed 5-megabyte (0.005 gigabyte) IBM 2314s on an upper shelf in the main computer room. There were about 100 as I recall, very attractively arranged. Also, computers and IBM support fees were so outrageously expensive that they charged $360 per CPU-second to run anything, billable to your department, so you learned at risk of your job to write programs maximally efficient.
Sort of. There were machines that had them, but I was jealous of the data networking people that were current looped to a 20M Winchester the size of a 2 drawer filing cabinet.
I did had an 8" floppy drive, in addition to the two 5.25 floppy drives. Can't for the life of me remember what the capacity was, and I wrote the device driver.