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My first computer with a hard disk was 10MB. You could store the operating system (MSDOS 5) and several programs (I remember Professional Write and QPRO. Not o
by xtracto 4y ago
My first computer with a hard disk was 10MB. You could store the operating system (MSDOS 5) and several programs (I remember Professional Write and QPRO. Not only that, but you could even store games. Prince of Persia was available in 2 floppies (5 1/4") with 720KB each one. You could store the whole game in the hard disk as well... This was around 1990.
In 1956, 5MB was plent of storage.
- tengwar2 4y agoBack in the early 90's, the first computer that I owned was a Psion 3 PDA with 256kB of battery-backed RAM, which was shared automatically between "disk" and working memory. Applications were held in ROM. On one occasion I needed to prepare a church address list. I entered the contact details in to a new contacts list (actually a simple flat-file database), exported to the spreadsheet to sort them, then exported to the word processor for formatting and printing. Not only was it possible, but it was easy. So yes, 5MB was a lot.