I shudder to think how much it all cost at the time, when I was so naive I paid £185 for a 810Mb hard disk, and £150 for a 16x CD-ROM
Heh, I once paid £200 for a 60MB HD a few years later I paid another £200 for a 4X CD-ROM. Even the floppy drive was £90!
Prices have come down a bit since then...