Quote Originally Posted by blue lander View Post
I think virtually all PCs had hard drives by 1989 or so, albeit they were usually like 20 megabytes. I'd bet most post-PC/AT clones had hard drives. In fact, the PC/XT, which was introduced in 1983, had a 10 megabyte hard drive standard.
True, but I'd say that it wasn't until late 1990 when the MPC standard came into being that game developers really started making HD installability a standard feature in most PC games. I can even recall owning several early CD-Rom games by Sierra that basically loaded right off the CD-Rom rather than installing anywhere on my PC and that was in 1991.