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Leading the world in technology and ecological transit.. on 3.5" (abc7news.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Maybe they meant home computers, and that's all most of their audience will picture in their heads, anyway. But yeah, not a very good computer historian.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Home computers had hard drives by then. This was after Win95 was out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Oh, 1998. My bad.