- The
Microdrive is a miniature, 1-inch hard disk
drive released in 1998 by IBM. The idea was
originally created in 1992 by duo
Timothy J.
Riley and Thomas...
- The ZX
Microdrive is a magnetic-tape data
storage system launched in July 1983 by
Sinclair Research for its ZX
Spectrum home computer. It was proposed...
- The
Microdrive is a
miniature hard disk
drive device in the
CompactFlash II
format from the late 1990s,
originally developed by IBM.
Microdrive may also...
- more
serious users.
While Sinclair's response, the ZX
Interface 1 and ZX
Microdrive, was very
cheap and
technologically innovative, it was also
rather limited...
- non-standard
Microdrive and
uncomfortable keyboard did not
endear it to the
business market.
Clive Sinclair later maintained that the
Microdrive was "a marvellous...
-
SmartMedia (SSFDC). However, CF did
switch to NAND type
memory later. The IBM
Microdrive format,
later made by Hitachi,
implements the CF Type II interface, but...
-
study in the book The Innovator's
Dilemma by
Clayton M. Christensen.
Microdrive - A 1-inch hard disk
drive produced by IBM and Hitachi,
released in 1999...
-
revised before launch to also act as the
controller for up to
eight ZX
Microdrive high-speed tape-loop
cartridge drives. It also
included a DE-9 RS-232...
-
generation but the
silver model remained unchanged. The iPod Mini used
Microdrive hard
drives (CompactFlash II) made by
Hitachi and Seagate.
First generation...
-
miniaturized rotating disk
memory devices such as the
Microdrive,
PocketZip and Dataplay. The
Microdrive had
higher capacities than
memory cards at the time...
