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preroktoday at 5:29 PM2 repliesview on HN

While original IBM PCs indeed may not have had HDDs, it did become a standard for PC XT, as early as 1983. Only the cheapest version were without a HDD by the end of the 1980s.


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actionfromafartoday at 5:37 PM

Many clones came without a HDD.

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layer8today at 6:56 PM

By the end of the 1980s, a lot of years had passed, and you’d buy an AT instead of an XT.