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I think you might be off by a few years at least, a 40MB drive in 1982 would’ve been incredibly uncommon.

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Idk man.

In the 1980s 8-inch drives used with some mid-range systems increased from a low of about 30 MB in 1980, to a top-of-the-line 3 GB in 1989.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives

Seems like 30MB wasn’t horribly uncommon in “mid-range systems” in 1980, so I doubt that 40MB in 1982 would’ve been “incredibly uncommon.”

But I’ve no personal experience from the time.

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“Mid-range systems” is not referring to personal computers. “8-inch drives” is another clue.

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True, he did say PC, fair enough.

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It is possible that I might be slightly mistaken over something unimportant that happened 40 years ago. Yes it is possible.

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