At the moment I'm filling a laptop with midi controllable sampled sound sets.
One piano is about 7 gigs of data...

Which seems ridiculously excesive compared to the perfectly acceptable sounds in those classic midi modules
that had to make the most of a few megs of memory at best...

Club singers made a living with a general midi module and a hardware midi file player..
Sounding superbly state of the art on a Saturday night after a few ciders..

My Yamaha sampler cost just under a grand in 1998,
the memory in that is laughable by todays requirements.
Our first PC from Tiny cost £1500 in 1999
and had the luxury of 128 megs of memory...