Wirt writes:
> Today IBM's Almaden Resesearch Center announced the development and
> marketability of their new microdrive, a 340 Mbyte ultra-miniature disc drive
> small enough to actually fit inside an egg. The unit price is expected to be
> less than $300.

IBM goes where someone has gone before :)

(Sorry, I'm having a flashback, remembering when IBM "invented" virtual
memory, which had been working for years on our Burroughs B6700)

Seriously, it sounds like they're where HP would have been had it not
dumped its leadership in this area (hmm...having another flashback here :).

I have a 10 MB HP Kittyhawk disk drive, circa 1991, in my hand...let me measure
it...
50 mm by 45 mm by 9 mm ... small enough to fit in many kinds of eggs,
possibly even a chicken egg (although an extra large one).

A 20 MB drive was the same size ... consider what's happened to disk drive
sizes in the last 8 years, and you can easily extrapolate a 300 to 400 MB
capacity for a 1998-era Kittyhawk :(

What happened to Kittyhawk?  Try:
http://www.byte.com/art/9506/sec4/art12.htm

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