On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Gary Oliver wrote:
The drive is very small (about the size of the
smallest PostIt(R)
pad.) HP claims it is the smallest hard drive ever made (1.3 inch)
and they don't make them anymore. I imagine it may be the smallest
hard disk that will ever be made, since flash is already more dense
than this drive. At any rate they are fairly inexpensive.
The Kittyhawk is pretty small, and I don't know of any machine other than
the Dauphin DTR-1 what used it. I don't think it's the smallest though.
Does anybody remember the Syquest SQ1100? Removable hard disks about the
size of a box of matches. They produced them for OEM eval, but I don't
think they ever made it to the retail channel. I have about 100 of them.
And then there was the Maxtor type-II PCMCIA hard disk. That's right, it
was rotating media enclosed in a type-II card (not the type-III or type-IV
cards most PCMCIA hard disks use). I think they killed this drive after
making a few samples, but I saw it at COMDEX one year and was very
impressed.
-- Doug