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My first HD was 10MB. Now get off my lawn.
Bought a 1 GB SCSI (for a Mac) internal drive for [choke] "$999" and thought I was getting the deal of a lifetime! How would I ever fill up 1 GB of data?!?! (circa 1992)

My first tech job (1987) was help desk for a software company. As junior guy, I got the COMPAQ "12 Mhz!" boat anchor with 2 x 360k floppy drives. After three months, I got bumped up to a 10MB hard drive, but it would not spin up on its own, so the cover was left off and you had to manually spin-start it each morning.

Finally, an old anecdote: IT (before it was 'IT') support guy is changing out a disk-pack:



Female student watching asks, "Wow, that looks heavy. How much does it weigh?"

IT Guy: "Depends on how much data is on it."

Female student: Nods in approval and complete belief.
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