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Leading the world in technology and ecological transit.. on 3.5" (abc7news.com)
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[โ€“] partial_accumen 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In 1990 I bought my first (very used PC) which had a 20MB hard drive in it. I In 1996 I upgraded my home computer to the largest consumer hard drive available 1.6GB.

For reference, a floppy disk pictured hold 1.44MB.

We had hard drives in home computers there too.

[โ€“] CrayonRosary 2 points 8 months ago

Oh, 1998. My bad.