HaikuBotStalksMe t1_iu4mx7m wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:53 PM

Reply to comment by smoky77211 in This was a high end laptop in 1989. It’d cost 12,000 $ in today’s prices by Read_Icculus_

I think by 1989, OSes were installed to local drive.

ItDoesntMatter59 t1_iu6nfyf wrote on October 28, 2022 at 11:19 PM

Boot from floppy was normal. HDD was more expensive and my first pc had a 10mb drive.

Mb. Not gb.

HaikuBotStalksMe t1_iu6ty4v wrote on October 29, 2022 at 12:12 AM

10 mb is huge for that time. The OS would have been like, what, 800 kilobytes? So after formatting and stuff, I'd figure you had 9.5 megs free.

Install DOS to hardrive, you have crazy fast boot times (probably 15 seconds instead of a minute), and still like 8.8 megabytes for all your text files.

I started computing in 1995ish with a 300ish meg hardrive (I think 320). It was reasonably sized until like 1999.

notacanuckskibum t1_iu6xe11 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 12:40 AM

Things were changing so fast it’s hard to remember exactly where we were in which year. 1989 would have been about Windows 1.0.