Harry Krause wrote:
John Gaquin wrote:

"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!!!

My next PC was an 8086-based unit from "Eagle," and it had a 10-meg hard
drive. Wow!

My first home computer was an 8086 IBM that work sold off as surplus.
It didn't even have a harddrive.