Previously in this thread:
But Iomega
already marketed a drive named "Click" (20M? too little,
too late)
40mb. I inherited a drive and some disks... I find it remarkable that
they managed to fit a spinning-removable-media drive inside a standard
PCMCIA card. Somehow, I don't really feel like trusting it to anything
important, though :).
I have a couple of these I picked up cheap from a surplus company a
few years back. I would never rely on these as a primary backup, but
as a fun little device, they are amusing to watch work.
My thought when I first saw them was that they reminded me of the
storage device show in the alien tech "museum" in "Men in Black",
where Tommy Lee Jones picks one up and says, "now I'll have to buy the
White Album all over again".
It has tempted me to rip my real White Album to Click and see if I
could fit the Iomega PCMCIA card into a 3.5" PCMCIA-IDE adapter frame
and mount _that_ in a 3.5"-5.25" adapter frame, then mount *that* in
my Apex DVD/CD player in place of the IDE DVD-ROM drive.
A long way for a gag, but I think it would work.
-ethan
P.S. - in the box with my Click stuff is a CF-to-Click adapter - the
idea was you'd take a 16MB or 32MB CF card from your camera, drop in a
Click disk, then siphon off your pictures without a PC in-between. It
was a fine idea except it was a) expensive, and b) camera cards
quickly blew past the size of a Click disk.