[LivingNet]

5 Megs? You had a 5 Meg hard drive?
We used to dream of a 5 Meg hard drive. We had to save our data on a cassette tape and we liked it.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

1) One consulting job I had in 1971, there were three cassette drives (only), and it took an hour of the computer clicking away, copying records back and forth, to sort 1,000 customer records by name.

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.

[Calvin Locke]

You had cassette tape? We had to use micro cassettes...

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.