Miguel de Icaza on Nostr: 23 years ago, IBM introduced the 1Gb Microdrive for laptops - it fit in your PCMCIA ...
23 years ago, IBM introduced the 1Gb Microdrive for laptops - it fit in your PCMCIA expansion slot, great for expanding your laptop storage. It sold for 500 dollars. We couldn’t wait for it to be available at retail.
This week I paid 10 dollars for 256 Gb micro as card to backup my zelda game.
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