Re: Except... 40 MB hard disks?
First desktop 1980s had 5M Byte full height drives. They didn't have intel CPUs very often (8085)., 6502, 6809, Z80 etc.
I have a 10M MFM drive on an 8088 in the attic.
By 1991 the 20M was common and you had to use evil disk compression to get the 40M you needed for Windows.
The Actual IBM PC had one or two 180K SS or 360K SD SD 5.25" Floppies. Though Apple II had only 100K floppies. Some non-IBM computers had much higher capacity floppies (8" or 5.25") and hard drives. The XT was first IBM PC with an official hard drive (and was 10Mbyte).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
