On: Apple used to be weirder and maybe more fun

[saulpw]

> October 17, 1988

> The typical Apple engineer’s office contains [...] about a gigabyte of hard disk space

A gigabyte?! In 1988?? Am I misremembering, or was that about 10-20x what we consumers had in our computers?

[m463 → saulpw]

I looked up computer shopper october 88.

most "normal" systems had 40mb hard disks.

mac ii 40mb hard drive... $3800

But a Compaq Deskpro 386/25 could come with a 300mb hard disk for ... $9650

an ibm ps2 with 314mb hard disk... $8585

[msh → saulpw]

I think it refers to the combined storage of the 4 to 5 computers each developer had.

[johnwalkr → msh]

I agree, today it's like having one of the latest Mac Studios, one older Mac Studio and a couple of MacBooks. Or even just one maxed-out Mac Studio. Enviable but credible.