1970s hard disk drive advertisement - photo

[Duke_of_URL]

I'll always remember what one of our Department Engineering Managers said when we got our new (and only) desktop PC that had a 30Meg HDD in it. His Engineers had been loading programs from Floppies (up to 10 required for one CAD program). He famously bragged, "Thirty Megabytes! We'll never need more than that!" Two years later that PC was making its way to the shredder.

[mklotz]

I'll always remember what one of our Department Engineering Managers said when we got our new (and only) desktop PC that had a 30Meg HDD in it. His Engineers had been loading programs from Floppies (up to 10 required for one CAD program). He famously bragged, "Thirty Megabytes! We'll never need more than that!" Two years later that PC was making its way to the shredder.

Misjudgements about computers are all too common. In the early 1940s, IBM's president, Thomas J Watson, reputedly said: "I think there is a world market for about five computers."