A lot of that was simply down to how slow hard drives were back then. I can not overstate what a miracle of performance it is jumping from a 7200RPM (or 5400!)

A lot of that was simply down to how slow hard drives were back then. I can not overstate what a miracle of performance it is jumping from a 7200RPM (or 5400!) HD to today's solid state storage. Tens of thousands of times faster in many cases.