That reminds me of the first external hard drive I ever bought for my Mac, around 1985. It was the 128K Mac computer and the only storage it had was the hard shell "floppy" disks. These, if I recall correctly, could hold 128 kilobytes (KB), and later became double-sided and could hold 256 KB. Swapping disks was how many of the programs were loaded. Clearly large external storage was needed. Hence, my 10 megabyte (MB) external hard drive purchase. It was somewhere in the neighborhood of $400 and about the same size as the old-style desktop cradle telephone. By comparison to the floppy disks, it was blazingly fast and had enormous capacity, equivalent to about 40 double-sided floppies. Ahh, yes, technology. smirk


On a Mac since 1984.
Currently: 24" M1 iMac, M2 Pro Mac mini with 27" BenQ monitor, M2 Macbook Air, MacOS 14.x; iPhones, iPods (yes, still) and iPads.