IBM offers higher capacity notebook drives (fwd)

["John H. Kim" <jokim@tuna.mit.edu>]

This is copyright Reuters and Clarinet so I'm only forwarding excerpts.

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From: C-reuters@clari.net (Reuters)
Newsgroups: clari.local.california.northern,clari.tw.computers.pc.hardware
Subject: IBM offers higher capacity notebook drives
Organization: Copyright 1996 by Reuters
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 8:30:11 PDT
  	  				 
	 SAN JOSE, Calif., April 15 (Reuter) - International  
Business Machines Corp. said Monday it was introducing 
magnetic disk drive products that exceed one billion bits of 
data in a square inch of disk space. 
...
	 The company said its new two-disk, 12.5 millimetre  
Travelstar 3LP offers a choice of 1.44 gigabyte or 1.08 
gigabyte capacities.
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There's also supposed to be 2+GB 17mm 2.5" drives in the same
timeframe (this June).  IBM says they can make 4GB 17mm drives,
but doesn't see a big market for them.
-- 
John H. Kim          "Just try telling the IRS you don't feel like
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jokim@tuna.mit.edu   on Bill Clinton's avoidance of the word 'taxes'