Not to mention the weight, power demands and (to some extent) noise!
At one point I did have two hardcards plugged into my Amstrad 8086 machine which felt pretty decadent. (Or maybe it was a hardcard plus the internal hard drive?) In total it wasn't even 100MB of storage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcard
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Not to mention the weight, power demands and (to some extent) noise!
At one point I did have two hardcards plugged into my Amstrad 8086 machine which felt pretty decadent. (Or maybe it was a hardcard plus the internal hard drive?) In total it wasn't even 100MB of storage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcard
That, and the IBM PC 5150 had what, 130 watts?, in the stock power supply.