Ten Whole Megabytes

When I was in college, I rented a friend’s computer for a year. It had an amazing ten megabyte hard drive, and I loved it! I didn’t have to boot it with two single-sided single-density 360KB floppy disks. It was great!

And ten whole megabytes! I figured I could type non-stop for decades before I filled it up. How cool was that?

Times have changed, haven’t they?

Update, 3/18 – Full disclosure, FYI: 105 GB of the disk space you see are consumed by virtual hard disks across 14 VMWare virtual machines.