The first personal computer that I owned (as opposed to using at work) was an Olivetti M24. This would be in 1985, I think.

I went for the extended memory option, so had a whole megabyte of that, but a lot of programmes couldn't use memory above the 640 kb line. It had an 8086 processor, but again I splashed out on the 8087 co-processor.

Standard models came with a 5Mb hard drive, but I went for the top-of-the-range, which came with an unheard-of 10Mb hard drive. Friends and colleagues thought I was crazy..."No-one will EVER need TEN MEGABYTES of storage" was a common response!!!

I've had about 4 Tb of stroage at home for well over a year, so I'm astounded that a journo a year ago was claiming that no-one would ever have enough data to warrant a 1 Tb drive!

Back in about 1991, the (relatively small) department I managed in a geophysical company became Sun Microsystems' first UK 1 Tb storage installation. Lots of 10 and 20 Gb housings. They were intrigued enough to send round a PR person and a techie to see what we were doing with it all!

Incidentally my main (monochrome, bulk document) printer at home is a Laserjet 5, bought in early 1997 and still working perfectly.