02-08-2005, 08:00 AM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Huge Sales for Tiny Hard Disks
Mario Apicella from Infoworld has written an article about the recent upsurge of activity surrounding Microdrives. He mentions the recent Hitachi announcement about "Mikey", which use 40% less power, is 20% physically smaller and goes up to 8Gb in size, as well as the new 6Gb Western Digital microdrive. The predicated grow rates for the sale of these tiny hard disks are huge, which means that manufacturers are eager to get into the market:
". . . [I]t's easy to speculate that the increased competition will lower prices, which will translate into a more affordable -- and possibly even faster-growing -- market for gizmos based on the drives. Another possible effect is to trigger lower prices and higher capacities for flash drives, microdrives' technology rival. This is good news if moving a spinning drive has you worried about the safety of your data. Looking further ahead, I like to imagine that the availability of large and inexpensive personal drives will inspire the building of a quintessential super-gizmo, perhaps a combination of cell phone, PDA, camcorder, laptop, MP3 player, and more where I can store and retrieve a lifetime of music, images, and personal information, including copies of my medical records (why not?). . . . If microdrives can help us live better and longer, I'm all for them. What about you?"
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02-09-2005, 05:39 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Heh...I am sorry but I found that picture quite funny... That chick is so confused...
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02-09-2005, 05:43 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Originally Posted by Copter
Heh...I am sorry but I found that picture quite funny... That chick is so confused...
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Yes, I do like that picture, which is why I used it. I think it's a picture of one of the original IBM microdrives.
I was tempted to put in a witty caption, but 'chickened' out. :lol: Feel free to propose funny captions for the chick if you want. :wink:
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02-10-2005, 09:13 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Actually its a nice picture but its not a recent one, coz i first saw it in 2000 8O ...
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02-10-2005, 11:59 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
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That pix dates back from last century* folks  , June 1999 when the 340MB version of the IBM Microdrive was announced. That's even pre-PocketPC. And it alread worked fine in my Palm-sizePC Casio E-105 :way to go:.
*=even last Millenium if you will :twisted:
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06-02-2005, 02:50 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Sure, but it's still a nice picture. 8) (And I have a few more where that one came from. :wink: )
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06-02-2005, 02:54 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by Jonathon Watkins
Sure, but it's still a nice picture. 8) (And I have a few more where that one came from. :wink: )
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Wuh, post resurrection! 8O
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06-02-2005, 04:46 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
Wuh, post resurrection! 8O
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I found this post again while searching for something else. I would have posted earlier, but for some reason, I was not 'watching' this thread, despite having started it. :| It's happened quite a few times, i.e. a watched thread suddenly becomes unwatched. :evil:
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