I have one of the original IBM Microdrives, the 340MB version, sitting here on my desk. Hmm I wonder if I can find anything with a PCMCIA slot to test if this still works?
Miniature Hard Drives
Submitted 4 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
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Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 4 months ago
billwashere@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah I had a camera back in the day that had one of these. I thought it was the shit.
No we have 1.5 TB MicroSD … which is 4600 of those 340mb drives…. this makes my brain hurt. And that camera is only about 20 years old.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 4 months ago
Haha yeah storage capacity just keeps going up fast. Now that you mention it, I do recall the performance on these drives was supposed to be just absolute crap, but it was a massive innovation before chip storage came out. And some day the next big thing will be released and we’ll wonder how we put up with SSD drives.
Mnem667@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I have one of those drives I pulled out of a Palm LifeDrive because it died.
Really really neat to see the platter inside, and neat tech, but the CF card that replaced it was so much faster.