How big was your first hard disk?

20mb in ICL DRS Workstation M30 (8086, 640kb, 256k VGA card)
40mb WD40 IBM IDE in my AMD386SX-25, 1mb SVGA card etc
Then 200mb Connor upgrade
540mb Maxtor
1.2gb Quantum Fireball
4.3gb Seagate
others i cant remember
40gb IBM Deathstar
80gb
160gb
320gb
1tb
...
Now got 2x 1tb F1 Samsungs and 3x Seagate 1tbs too

phew!
 
486 with 120Mbyte was the first PC I bought. The first add on drive I bought was 18Gbytes and cost £110. I still have it for some reason.

First machine I worked on had 12 inch removeable platters that held 5MBytes. Used a Data General Mini-computer, the first 200MByte drive I saw was the size of a washing machine!

Now we can have 500Gig in a laptop. Not to mention 2Gbyte SD Cards you can buy for less than a tenner! Crazy isn't it?
 
My 1st hard drive was an impressive 1Gb in my Amiga 1200, think I used about 150mb of it lol. In my defence I wanted a 500mb but they were out of stock so I asked for a 700mb, out of stock so the guy offered me the 1Gb for the same price as the 720mb.

My 1st pc had a 6.4 Gb, later I added a 30Gb, then I had a 120Gb.
 
When my parents bought our first PC back in Jan 1997, we had a 1.2GB HDD. Two years later when I built my very first PC, I had a 3.2GB Quantum Fireball HDD...lol...man those were days I tell ya :D
 
1gb hdd

PC cost £1400 i think from Epsom (remember them!?!)

Spec was:

Pentuim 100mhz processor
8x CD Drive
1gb hdd
8mb RAM (later upgraded to 16mb and it flew!!)

Running windows 95 :D
 
can't remember exact size but less than 500MB. was an IBM running windows 3.1. first PC brought was a Tiny with a huge 10GB HDD from 2000, with windows ME, until i nackered the HDD in ~18 months then had a 20GB drive.
thou saying that my netbook has a 4GB SSD but it is the asus EEE701 surf
 
I sometimes sit and watch a file downloading over broadband and think ".... yup and there goes the size of my first hard drive in 15 seconds" :D
 
Had a Commodore 64 although unsure of the hdd size? First PC was built by Tiny, a P1 200mhz (mmx technology here people!) 4gig HDD, 32mb ram at a price of £1200 in 1997! I over clocked this puppy to 225mhz as it even had jumpers on the motherboard ;) I remember trying to fit a 10gig or so hdd to this in 1998 and failed completely. Bios wouldnt read more than 8gig iirc!
 
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My first was an IBM PS/2 with as far as I can remember a 10mb drive. That was replaced with a 386sx with a massive (at the time) 20mb drive.
 
640MB Quantum Fireball for an Amiga 1200. Cost about £280-300 at the time :o :(
Then a 2GB
Then a 4.3GB
Then a 10GB
Then they got bigger VERY fast.

Currently weighing in at about 3TB of disk space :D
 
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