[GH85Carrera]

My very first computer was a Vic 20. It had a cassette tape drive to load programs. It took 5 or 10 minutes to load a 4K program. Then I moved way up to a Commodore 64 with a floppy drive. The floppy drive came with one floppy. I knew I would need a second floppy to back up my programs. Yep, I bought only two 360K floppies. One for the data & one for all of my backups. Back then a floppy was expensive.

When I moved up to my super fast 4.77 Mhz IBM PC with 256K and a dual floppy drives and DOS 2.1 it did not take me long to decide to buy my first massive hard drive. It was 10 MB and was several hundred bucks. The geek in my discovered I could re-format the drive with RLL compression and make it into a 32 MB drive. I hit the BBS systems and discovered Fido-net. I was downloading programs and 300 baud and soon I had a lot of good stuff. I decided I needed a backup so I found a backup program and started slugging in 360K floppies. It took a big stack of floppies.

It still amazes me to know that my iPhone has 1,000 more space than that my first compressed hard drive. And my iPhone cost less!