"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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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!

And how about memory and this quote:

"640k ought to be enough for anyone" - Bill Gates, 1981