In the early 1980s you could buy a 5mb hard disk that connected to the Atari 800 and other models through 2 (4?) of the joystick ports. It was pretty clever, an

In the early 1980s you could buy a 5mb hard disk that connected to the Atari 800 and other models through 2 (4?) of the joystick ports. It was pretty clever, and 5mb was a huge amount of space at a time when a floppy disk held 80k, and loading files from cassette tape could take 10-20 minutes. It was also incredibly expensive.