MIKE ROSS wrote in a message to Greg Mayman:

 MR> "Greg Mayman" wrote to "Roy J. Tellason" (13
Dec 02  08:40:00)  ---
 MR> on the topic of "NOT TRAFFIC LIGHT"

 GM> Yes, they were *B*I*G* in those days.

 GM> The first XT I owned had a 10 meg full height drive in it, that
 GM> should be around somewhere but I can't find it at the moment.

 MR> Speaking of early HD I had one from a TRS80 with a whopping 5 Meg.
 MR> When RLL controllers became available for the XT I got 7.5 Meg from
 MR> it. I thought that was still useful storage back then.

It probably was,  back then.  

My first HD was a 20M drive,  and it took me a *while* to fill that up,
considering that I had it hooked up to a CP/M box.  I still have that
drive, too.  Probably oughta fire that box up one of these days...

There was a "mini" I worked with back in those days,  around 1985
or so,  that was several racks full of stuff,  mostly TTL and similar
parts.  The thing used two disk drives,  each of which had one fixed and
one removable platter. The disks were 14" in diameter,  and stored a
whopping 10M each.  And with this machine the folks that had it ran
essentially a computer service bureau, doing things like payroll for a
local supermarket chain.  Data was input by a punch card reader,  and yes, 
they had keypunch equipment there too.  Thankfully I never had to deal with
any of that stuff.

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