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Hardcard

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Hardcard
An earlier family of hard disks from Plus Development Corporation, Milpitas, CA, that housed the drive and controller on an expansion board. Since many early PCs had little cabinet room, the Hardcard did not take up a drive bay.


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5-inch HDD Rodime RO 352 1983 First ODD OSI Laserdrive 1200 1985 First CD-ROM drive Philips CM100 1985 First HDD mounted on card Quantum Hardcard 1987 First magneto-optical drive Sharp JY500 1987 Last 14-inch HDD introduced IBM 3380K 1987 RAID definition University of California, Berkeley 1988 First 2.
The Hardcard cost at least $500 for 40 MB of disk storage, and so did the 1 MB of RAM.
Quality and reliability became a differentiating sales point for Plus' Hardcard hard disk product after an intensive design for manufacturing process.
 
 
 
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