>> You're thinking of the first generation of 5.25" drives.
> 
> Which were a paltry 180K if memory serves. But with only
> 16K!! of RAM in the IBM PC, it was enough for the days before
> GUIs.

The first were 160K single sided.
I have one still.
180k was a later improvement.


        RM

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