Well now, Bernard, my first personal computer was an AT, with 30MB drive. I did upgrade and add a 2d 30MB drive, and an "extended memory card" with 1MB of extra RAM - about all you could stuff in back then, and only a few programs could use any of it.
I "bought in" because they were saying that "computers are taking over," and I figured I'd better learn to keep up.
Ten years later, when I transferred out of my "modern progressive organization" that was "going to make everybody use computers" the BEST computer I could get on at the office was an XT that didn't have a hard drive. You had to be able to fit the OS boot, the program, and any results you produced all on one 5.25" floppy, unless you could get by with the "BASIC" that was in BIOS - and they didn't have a printer in the building so you had to carry the floppy elsewhere to print any results. (I usually just took it home and brought the printout back the next day, but technically that was illegal because "somebody might steal everything the company knows.")