Microdrive
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The Microdrive was a miniature, one-inch hard disk drive released in 1998 by IBM. The idea was originally created in 1992 by Timothy J. Riley and Thomas R. Albrecht at the Almaden Research Center in S
1 GB IBM Microdrive
IBM and Hitachi Microdrive harddisk drives, with an American quarter for size comparison
One of the images stored by the Microdrive, taken on the STS-102 mission showing Discovery's payload bay
A disassembled 1st-generation iPod Mini, which uses a Microdrive to store data
HP Kittyhawk
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The Hewlett-Packard HP3013/3014, nicknamed Kittyhawk, was a hard disk drive introduced by Hewlett-Packard on June 9, 1992. Developed with assistance from AT&T and manufactured by Citizen Watch, it was
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…San Jose. A team of engineers and designers at IBM's Fujisawa, Japan facility helped make the creation of the drive possible. Due to the failure of the Kittyhawk, a 1.3-inch hard disk drive also created in 1992 by Hewlett Packard, initial support for it was reluctant. Despite that, development persisted. The…
32 MB CompactFlash card (left) and quarter (bottom right) comparison in size to a Kittyhawk drive (center)