"Harry Krause" wrote in message

I remember when I bought my first IBM PC, in 83 or 84. It came with one
floppy drive, and a second floppy was $300. Sheesh. No hard drive in that
first unit, but you could get a TAPE drive.

Yup.... I recall our first in 82. Sprang for the extra floppy; also sprang
for additional memory (512K), a color monitor (extra $300, iirc) so my
little girl might be more interested. All that and a wide-carriage d/m
printer, and the tab topped out just under $5K. A couple of years later, a
guy I was building houses with bought an XT ........ with a built-in hard
drive of -- ready? -- 5 megabytes!!!! Brave New World!!! Overwhelming
technology run rampant!!!