• @Dasus
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    86 months ago

    Idk man.

    In the 1980s 8-inch drives used with some mid-range systems increased from a low of about 30 MB in 1980, to a top-of-the-line 3 GB in 1989.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives

    Seems like 30MB wasn’t horribly uncommon in “mid-range systems” in 1980, so I doubt that 40MB in 1982 would’ve been “incredibly uncommon.”

    But I’ve no personal experience from the time.

    • @[email protected]
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      56 months ago

      “Mid-range systems” is not referring to personal computers. “8-inch drives” is another clue.

      • @Dasus
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        66 months ago

        True, he did say PC, fair enough.