Article: Forty Years of Hard Disk Drive Innovation ... IBM Shrinks Hard Disk Drives for Mobile Computers; Announces New Record for Storing Data.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 1996--Forty years after inventing the world's first hard disk drive for computer storage, IBM today announced the lightest 2.5-inch hard disk drive for mobile computers.

About the size of a cassette tape, the drive will enable a new generation of super-slim notebook computers. Users will benefit because they will have smaller, lighter-weight computers to tote around -- on the college campus, to conventions and on airplanes. It will also benefit those who have limited desk space or only work from the road in a "virtual office."

"IBM invented the first drive. It was the size of two refrigerators. This ...

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