It felt like cutting edge stuff because it was cutting edge stuff!
The hard drive on my 386 could hold 40 MB and even though that CD-ROM initiated an upgrade to a 486 (because CorelDRAW 3 and Windows was chewing up most of my disk space), that 486 only had 200 MB or so of disk space. To add a little additional context, I recall 40 MB being about twice the standard disk size on personal computers of its era. That would have been 1991 or so. While I don't recall if I went for a larger hard drive on the 486, I don't see why I wouldn't have. After all, why spend buckets of cash on 16 MB of RAM (in 1993 or so) when you don't have enough disk space to do interesting stuff.
Anyways, it's nice to know I'm not the only crazy person out there.
The hard drive on my 386 could hold 40 MB and even though that CD-ROM initiated an upgrade to a 486 (because CorelDRAW 3 and Windows was chewing up most of my disk space), that 486 only had 200 MB or so of disk space. To add a little additional context, I recall 40 MB being about twice the standard disk size on personal computers of its era. That would have been 1991 or so. While I don't recall if I went for a larger hard drive on the 486, I don't see why I wouldn't have. After all, why spend buckets of cash on 16 MB of RAM (in 1993 or so) when you don't have enough disk space to do interesting stuff.
Anyways, it's nice to know I'm not the only crazy person out there.