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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dcwp" data-source="post: 417733" data-attributes="member: 25562">Wow, that must have been quite a machine.  The first PC that I owned was a 386 when I went to college, but even at the time the guys in the campus bookstore laughed at me when I tried to buy software for it.  I remember our first family PC when my father took a job working with them.  It was a Leading Edge brand 8086 with a HD measured in Kb.  It had a program that did word processing and could run Printshop, all of which I thought was amazing.  Not too long ago (some time in the 1990s) father was working in data storage for a federal agency and he told me that they hit a major milestone: they were managing a *terabyte* of data!  Wow, that seemed like an unfathomable amount of information, even for the storage center of a federal agency!  Now you can get that much storage for well under 100 bucks.</blockquote>