[pjmlp]

And expensive, really expensive.

[lenerdenator]

I was gonna say, "MORE THAN TWO HARD DISKS? IN THE DAYS OF DOS?! Anything else we could get for you, your majesty?"

[forinti]

I have piles of old, but still functioning HDs now. I was looking at them yesterday and thought about how cheap these things have become.

I had to save up to buy floppies in the 80s!

[rwmj]

Not to mention the weight, power demands and (to some extent) noise!

At one point I did have two hardcards plugged into my Amstrad 8086 machine which felt pretty decadent. (Or maybe it was a hardcard plus the internal hard drive?) In total it wasn't even 100MB of storage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcard

[cestith]

That, and the IBM PC 5150 had what, 130 watts?, in the stock power supply.