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    The Microdrive is a type of miniature, 1-inch hard disk produced by IBM and Hitachi. These rotational media storage devices were designed to fit in CompactFlash...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • non-standard Microdrive and uncomfortable keyboard did not endear it to the business market. Sinclair later maintained that the Microdrive was "a marvellous...
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  • 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...
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    miniaturized rotating disk memory devices such as the Microdrive, PocketZip and Dataplay. The Microdrive had higher capacities than memory cards at the time...
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    generation but the silver model remained unchanged. The iPod Mini used Microdrive hard drives (CompactFlash II) made by Hitachi and Seagate. First generation...
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    and expansion connectors, making it impossible to connect and use the Microdrive units. Production of the +3 was discontinued in December 1990, reportedly...
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