In the 80s you could also get a 1 gigabyte of storage from an optical worm drive.
Here an interesting Computer Chronicles coverage of the Amiga, also discussing why the general computing press in the United States did everything to ignore the Amiga (even today you can find websites relating to computing history pretending the Amiga never existed):
http://revver.com/video/407327/computer-chronicles-amiga-2500-371989/