If you had an early one then you needed that tape drive. To load the keyboard debounce program before you used it. To keep keystrokes from duplicating. 
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Having done a lot of hardware benchmarking recently, I wonder what the number assigned really means, and assume it must be based on some historical standard. Can I assume an 8086 would benchmark at 1, and we're comparing everything to that?
My first computers were Commodore 64's in 1984. I got good at altering the drives and daisy chaining them and speeding them up. I and another geek ran a BBS with at first 300 baud modems and then eventually 2400 baud. It seemed so fast back then! lol. We paid a cool $1000 for a 1GB drive for the system towards the end of C=64 boards. It was a steal at the time! Shortly after then HDD's plummeted for IBM clones and capacity was increasing beyond imagination. 10GB HDD's were going for only $300 and we felt Sooo stupid! Those were the days! Now I usually have my iPad 4 in hand it still seems like a miracle for what it does.
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