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Building a Reader for the Smallest Hard Drive

45 pointsby voctorlast Monday at 9:04 AM8 commentsview on HN

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alias_neotoday at 11:11 AM

I remember my Nokia N91 which had a 4GB version of one of these tiny HDDs, blew my mind at the time.

Man do I miss the N-series, I had so many good phones in that era.

Tempest1981today at 8:56 AM

Cool!

I found the old drive that worked with my Canon camera. It's a Hitachi 2GB Microdrive from 2003. It says CF+ Type-II. So larger, with a CompactFlash interface, boring in comparison.

More history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive

I'm trying to remember the camera... Canon Powershot S1 IS maybe? It used a lot more battery running the microdrive.

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tdatoday at 8:14 AM

Is there a video somewhere of the one inch microdrive with acrylic display shown in the article?

wartywhoa23today at 9:25 AM

Lost me at the first OpenClaw mention.

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