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Originally Posted by theducks
(I also found one of my old MFM drives (taller than modern drives).
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Good luck on finding a controller and also a PC with an ISA slot. I think I sent my last to recycling last year. I might have one slim PC left somewhere with Win98, CD drive and IDE HDD that has ISA. You'd not fit any MFM controller in it that I ever saw.
In late 1990s one of the kids had a PC with a full height 10 M byte MFM drive for a short while, i.e. size of two full size CD/DVD drive bays. My first HDD was a 5M byte on an Apple II that had its own PSU.
I found a photo of a development lab about 1983 a couple of weeks ago. Intel development system running IsisII and "cake cover" style 5 M Byte HDD pack (winchester?) in a floor standing box almost half the size of a filing cabinet. The desk also had the ACT Sirius 1 PC, which was seriously more advanced than the IBM PC in 1981. 800x 400 matte graphics screen vs goldfish bowl text only (CGA was an option). Sound, clock, I/O built in. 1.2M or 2.4M floppy vs 180K or 360K on IBM in 1981.
Largest SSDs here are 512G NVMe and HDDs is only 6 T. All PC/Laptop with SSD also have SATA HDD for /usr and /home