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by kristopolous 786 days ago
It doesn't look like you could hit disk surface at that speed with MFM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST506/ST412 and the ISA bus was right around there. Removable disk was like 1/100th that speed and you'd fill up a consumer hard disk in less than a minute at that rate.

Programs were small enough that people were typing in hex codes published in magazines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-in_program).

I know today we can easily utilize 6Mbps but relatively speaking this feels like it'd be the equivalent to something like 1 Tbps today. I don't know what the home pc user would be doing with it.