I worked in a lab once with a five megabyte hard drive from the 80s being used as a door stop, it was huuge, like the size of a large shoebox. They also had a W

I worked in a lab once with a five megabyte hard drive from the 80s being used as a door stop, it was huuge, like the size of a large shoebox. They also had a WORM drive from the 80s that I dug up an ad for and it cost $25k for the writer and it could store 4Gb!!! On what looked like a laser disc in a tray. It’s wild the range of available technology at any given time, depending on how much money you have. I do remember being very cautions when I first setup linux because things actually cared about the number of blocks, cylinders, etc, and if you got it wrong things broke in confusing ways.