My first hard drive was 5Mb, and I had to write my own driver for it (PDP11, c. 1982). It was a hell of a step up from 8" floppies, enough so I partitioned it i

My first hard drive was 5Mb, and I had to write my own driver for it (PDP11, c. 1982). It was a hell of a step up from 8" floppies, enough so I partitioned it into 8 separate areas. Even the floppies were a step up from paper tape - the older guys used to have a cupboard of paper tapes on coathangers, and linked their code by feeding the tapes through the reader in the right order. Kids these days etc :)