Credit Card sized 5GB HD to arrive late this year

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Credit Card sized 5GB HD to arrive late this year

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 21, 2003 @02:07AM from the here's-hoping dept.

An anonymous reader writes "PC World reports in this article: "The card actually has moveable parts inside its thin shell," says Bill Heil, vice president of StorCard. A spinning wheel made of Mylar is engaged when the card is inserted into a StorReader, a USB-connected drive or PC Card that reads and writes to the StorCard. The reader is expected to retail for under $100 and the cards for under $15 each, Heil says. The StorCard and StorReader are scheduled to become available in the second half of 2003."

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Brings new meaning to by yatest5 · 2003-01-21 02:10 · Score: 5, Funny

filling up your credit card with hard disks...
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At long last! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-21 02:12 · Score: 4, Funny

I suspect that Duke Nukem Forever will be released using this new media.
Coming Not So Soon by DASHSL0T · 2003-01-21 02:13 · Score: 4, Funny

Cmdr Taco's grammar checker to become late 2007, at the earliest.

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Old Commercial, New Twist by slide-rule · 2003-01-21 02:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Trip to the ballpark with teenage son: $25.
Trip to computer store for card reader: $100.
Trip to radio shack for odds-n-ends: $30.
Look on son's face when he cracks into the secret pr0n cache on your new credit card: Priceless.
Re:Credit Card sized 5GB HD to become late this ye by IPFreely · 2003-01-21 02:19 · Score: 3, Funny

"Please come with me, or you will become late.
"Late? Late for what?"
"Oh me, I never was very good at threats. Come with me or you will become late, as in 'The late Dent Arther Dent'."

Maybe they are planning to kill off the technology.

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and the RIAA levy.... by Craig+Nagy · 2003-01-21 02:21 · Score: 5, Funny

will raise the price to $200?

Cause obviously this thing is going to hold my entire mp3 collection...I don't see any other use.
Re:size .. by dizco · 2003-01-21 02:27 · Score: 5, Funny

Er, and you need a PC card reader to put the pc card in.. and a computer to put that in.. and some way to power the computer.. hell, this thing ain't that small. It barely fits in the back of a pickup.
Please parse the topic for me by guacamolefoo · 2003-01-21 02:27 · Score: 5, Funny

"Credit Card sized 5GB HD to become late this year"

So...:

1. Is it coming late this year, or
2. Is it on target but is going to become late sometime later this year, or
3. Is it going through a transcendant, life-changing experience sometime during this year, or...

GF.

GF.

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Re:Credit Card sized 5GB HD to become late this ye by Quixadhal · 2003-01-21 02:44 · Score: 4, Funny

Grammer odd not, I think.

-yoda.