How these tiny hard drives changed the world!

Check out Secret Lab at Save 10% and Free Worldwide Shipping at Ridge by using offer code LINUS at They weren’t around for that long, but IBM’s microdrive had a major impact on multiple industries. Discuss on the forum: Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group. ► GET MERCH: ► LTX 2023 TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW: ► GET EXCLUSIVE CONTENT ON FLOATPLANE: ► AFFILIATES, SPONSORS & REFERRALS: ► OUR WAN PODCAST GEAR: FOLLOW US --------------------------------------------------- Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: TikTok: @linustech Twitch: MUSIC CREDIT --------------------------------------------------- Intro: Laszlo - Supernova Video Link: iTunes Download Link: Artist Link: Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High Video Link: Listen on Spotify: Artist Link: Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Intro 1:15 Back in the 1990s, Compact Flash was born... 2:30 ... But it was REALLY expensive and REALLY small. 3:02 Enter the Microdrive - Digital media suddenly got affordable 3:58 It’s literally a tiny hard drive that holds thousands of photos 5:03 Way less expensive than flash and 4x bigger! But slow... 6:21 Competition heated up - Surely this was the future? 7:21 iPods and MP3 players got smaller thanks to Microdrive 8:45 And then flash caught up 9:50 Let’s open one up and peek inside 12:29 Conclusion - The right tech at the right time