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What's the SMALLEST (capacity) hard drive you've ever used?

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Double Trouble

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I see all these new 80 and 100 Gig hard drives, and I got to wondering, what's the smallest capacity hard drive you've ever personally used or had in a system?

For me, it was a 10 MB hard drive for my original Apple II machine. Small is not a good way to describe the HD though, it was a box about the size of a big tower case PC, sounded like a jet engine, and was hooked up through thick cables to the Apple. I remember thinking "there's no freakin' way anyone will ever be able to fill this puppy up". 😉 Of course, back then the whole operating system fit on a 120Kb floppy (and actually worked!).

Lets hear about other people's experiences!
 
I remember back in primary school they had these computers that were old even then(late 1980's) and I can remember them being about 7MB!
 
I had a 6 meg, full height, 5.25 inch hard drive in my 8086 PC-XT clone,

... with dual 5.25 inch floppy drives and full 640 meg of RAM.
 
an 8086 portable. the thing had to be the first version of a laptop. it had no hard drive and only a floppy drive. the thing weighed about 70 lbs, but it was portable!!
 
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