Wow! What a spec!

Just got a quote for a basic PC from my local PC shop.

500 TB Sata Hard Drive

Methinks a slight typo

That might be a little way off yet.

http://www.high-rely.com/hr_66/blog/largest-hard-dri...

On a similar note, I noted that an article last year mentions a 6.4TB drive:

http://www.high-rely.com/hr_66/blog/largest-hard-dri...

That makes me think. My first, brand new PC had a 6.4GB HDD and was considered a 'beast' in its day (1997).

That was a monster, my first real PC was this beast
512k RAM, 360K Floppy NO HDD and only 8 bit graphics, though my first computer was a bit smaller than that, the Sinclair Spectrum

Ditto on the first computer being a spectrum. I had a second hand 486 PC, and a second hand 386 laptop in between the speccie and the 'beast'.

Just remembering the spec:

PII 300Mhz
64MB RAM
6.4GB 5400 rpm drive
4MB gfx card
Soundblaster card (Pro I think - it was prior to the 2/5/7.1 cards anyway)
17" CFT monitor

All for about £1,800. Ye gods!

For what we paid back then you could get a real monster these days, inflation included.

The first PC-type machine I used was at work- an ACT Sirius (10MHz 8086, 640KB RAM) with a massive 10MB (yup, that's megabytes) HDD, I wondered how I'd ever fill it

First PC I bought with my own money was a Viglen 25MHz 386 with 4MB RAM (later extended to 8MB) and a 60MB HDD. Cost me nearly £2,000, rather more than the 27" iMac I'm typing this on

But it's HDDs that have really changed- first separate one I bought was 200MB and cost ~£200, the most recent holds 10,000 times the amount of data, cost a third of the price and is a lot smaller!

I think my first big hdd was 40MB, I now have 2*1TB along with a 128MB SDD in the computer with a further 16TB networked throughout the house serving as Media Centres for all my music and films and RAID0 backups. which probably cost me not much more than your Viglen.

We had an original IBM XT at school donated by IBM themselves - can't get any earlier with proper x86 - that was what started it all.

My own first machine was an Amstrad 1640 with dual 5 1/4" floppy drives - no HDD. That was the PC that got me through college.

First HDD was on an Amstrad 2086 which if I remember rightly had a 20MB HD (might have been 30MB). And it was clear that was tons of space and wouldn't possibly need more for decades

And there have been a lot of PCs following that...