I've got a removable disk pack at home that has the unbelievable storage capacity of 5MB

First computer I ever had experience with was a Datapoint mini-computer, it used removable data packs that held 2.5MB. These packs were about 16 inches in diameter, maybe three inches thick, and weighed in the neighborhood of 10 pounds apiece.

The drive unit that used these cartridges cost about $9,000 (back in 1976) and had a service life of two to three weeks between visits from the repairman. The computer was so fast that it could sort and re-index a 1000 line text file (index on the first 10 characters) in less than two minutes.

Believe it or not, this dreadful machine was still a vast improvement over the way we had been doing things before we acquired it.

Ahhh, the Good Old Days. They really weren't, you know...

tanstaafl.