IBM plans to make a beefed-up tiny hard drive available later this month, targeting laptop users. The company's 4GB "Microdrive" is slated to be available Feb. 20, according to Big Blue's Web site.
From the room-size monster that cost a king’s ransom to the diminutive device that today costs just a few bucks, the evolution of the hard drive is an amazing story of an industry that’s continually ...
(1) For AMD's CPU, see Winchester. (2) An early removable disk drive from IBM that placed the read/write heads and platters in a sealed unit. Before the Winchester architecture, the read/write heads ...