Alexandre Souza asked:
The Cricket was the first 1.6 inch hard drive. Never
made it to market
though a few samples exist. It was 20 years before the 1.8 inch which did
get to market.
Billy, wasn't that drive that fitted a Polaroid PDC-2000 camera?
I had one of these with a VERY SMALL hard drive inside!
Greetings from Brazil
Alexandre Souza
<http://www.tabajara-labs.com.br>
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Billy answers:
To my knowledge, no Crickets were ever sold. But an awful lot of samples
went out. It was designed and built in the Normandale plant of Magnetic
Peripherals.
I know nothing about the Poloroid camera. But I'm not surprised. The small
drive idea is one that seems to come to every engineer in the industry.
There have to be more attempts. It's a geek thing. Keeps coming around;
sort of like the 3.5" CD, or the vertical IC.
Billy