I forget if this came up the first time around for the discussion, but, FYI:
Toshiba's got a .85-inch drive (even smaller than the 1-inch microdrive from
Hitachi/IBM) --
http://boingboing.net/2004/03/17/worlds_smallest_hard.html
--- Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:32:27 -0600, John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com> wrote:
> > At 08:31 PM 1/5/2005, you wrote:
> > Coincidentally, today I stumbled on a reference in an email I sent to
> > friends in March 1998:
> >
> > "Check out the (perhaps) world's smallest mechanical hard drive,
> > soon to be a classic, about the size of the smallest Post-Its,
> > just $7.95 and 20 megs, at <http://www.allelec.com/#kittyhawk> ."
> >
> > It must've been mentioned on Slashdot.
>
> I don't remember where I heard about it, but I _did_ buy a couple for
> $7.95, and I have bought several things over the years from All Elec.
>
> -ethan
>
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