Storage speed has a lot to do with overall speed as well.
I certainly remember the days of shuffling my 5.25 inch floppies in and out of a drive, and wishing for a hard drive. This one was 3 grand with the installation kit, and that is 9 grand in 2025 dollars. Way more than I paid for my brand new 74 914 2.0. Now drives are huge and cheap. I did pay over 600 bucks for my dial up modem!
Nov. 20, in 1985, Windows 1.0 – the first version of Microsoft's Windows system – was launched. It looked like this:
I also remember the 640K memory limit and booting up my programs and having a whopping 300KB of ram left.
