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Bloody hell, talk about a digital native…

Gather round children and I’ll tell you a story

The A: and B: drives were used for data storage media called floppy disks.

I’m too young [sic] to have experienced the 8″ disk, but the 5¼” (720kB – about 40 seconds of mp3 music) and 3½” (half a pop song…) were the only removable consumer media in the 1980s and 90s.

But you could fit the ENTIRE MS-DOS operating system on a 5¼” disc and – by discarding some unnecessary bits –  Microsoft Word would fit on a 3½” disc.

I know this, because my first PC had a 5¼” disc as a hard drive.

It cost me US$200 (in 1986, that was a LOT OF MONEY) to buy and have a 3½” drive fitted so that I could DO stuff.

My second PC was better.

It had a 100MB hard drive and only cost DM3000…..