[h0l0cube]

Both of those stories are from the 80s, when hard drives were the size of washing machines and an internet connection was an unlikely thing to have outside the military and larger scientific institutions (e.g., CERN).

[floxy]

The original IBM PC/XT had a 10 MB internal 5-1/4" hard drive in 1983.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT

[h0l0cube]

I'm aware that small form factor hard drives existed at this time, they just didn't have the capacity for a medical database.