[Dalberg-Acton]

Most people couldn’t afford a hard drive in those days (1983).

I remember when I was finally able to get an IBM clone with a 10 Meg drive that was full height MFM encoded. Chris Fisher, workplace genius, told me to use “debug” to execute the command line program on the controller at memory address C800 or *something* like that. I was able to change the interleave and went from like 10 revolutions to read a sector to only 4. Made a huge diff in the performance.

I thought that 10 Meg. was more space than I would ever need.

[Billthedrill]

Most people couldn’t afford a hard drive in those days...

Exactly. What is this "format c:" thing? Who has THREE floppy drives?

[KevinB]

Ha, me too. In 1985, fresh out of law school, I bought an XT clone with not one but two 5-1/4 floppy disks, a 20 meg hard drive and an Epson LQ 1500 dot-matrix printer. I unpacked and set up everything and sat there very satisfied in the knowledge that I'd never need to buy another piece of computer equipment. How the heck was I ever going to fill up 20 megs? LOL!

I sure am thankful for my DOS experience. It taught me so much about organizing my computer and files.

(And, yes, I know my previous post should have contained a back slash rather than forward slash, but I hit the wrong key thanks to my old eyes. :-))