Who Made/Makes the World Smallest Harddrive

Keys jrkeys at concentric.net
Sat Dec 18 11:31:46 CST 2004


Looking for the smallest in physical size and not compact flash drives.  The 
matchbox sounds like the one I may be looking for.
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From: "Scott Stevens" <chenmel at earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: Who Made/Makes the World Smallest Harddrive


> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:11:26 -0600
> "Keys" <jrkeys at concentric.net> wrote:
>
>> IS it IBM?  I need one for a museum display we are putting together. 
>> Thanks
>
> Smallest in size, or in capacity?  My first hard drive was a Shugart 5 meg 
> drive, MFM encoding.  Was there ever a smaller hard drive by capacity for 
> the 'PeeCee' or otherwise?  5 megs was a LOT of space at the time.
>
> Physically smallest, wasn't there a drive called the 'matchbox' drive? 
> Smallest I've owned was a little PCMCIA hard drive, which isn't as small 
> as the 'matchbox' drive.
> 




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