Well, as Einstein once said, "Everything is relative"

My first storage on my TRS-80 Model 1 was a cassette tape recorder. When I upgraded to a 70kb floppy drive, I felt like I could rule the world. 5mb of storage was an inconceivably large drive. (I'm guessing that was back in 1977 +/-).

A few months after this ad ran (I'd say in 1982), I was pushing a company name IMS International (which later changed its name to Cubix). After a couple of dud manufacturers trying to sell vaporware, they came up with a scheme that worked: Sigle-board computers (each with its own Z-80 CPU, 64kb RAM and a pair of serial ports plugged into an S-100 bus computer (which handled storage, printing and communication between the boards).

This setup was way ahead of its time (hard to say whether it was a blade server or a network in a box). It ran an operating system called "TurboDos". We were able to expand it (given enough CPU boards) into a 16 user system where each user ran as fast as a stand-alone PC, but they all shared the same storage and system-wide peripherals. I think they changed their name when they shifted to 8086 running Unix in a similar concept of hardware environment.

Jeff