# Surprisingly cheap things

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 24, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-cheap-things/963363 "2022-04-24T17:42:21Z")\
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The first hard drive I ever saw for a PC held 5MB and cost $1500. It was at Comdex in 1982. When we set up a student computing lab in 1987, we had a 20MB hard disk for the whole lab, shared among a dozen computers and that included the space for the networking software. When we upgraded to 80MB, we breathed a lot easier. By the mid '90s, so many students had their own PC that we closed the lab.

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