Microdrive reliability

[Jim Leonard]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
>> I don't know what you mean by "ST1".  But I had an IBM 340MB CF
>> Microdrive when they were brand new.  It still works.
> 
> I'm working on a project that would normally take a standard (i.e. 
> flash) CF card, but I'm debugging code and I'd like to use something 
> that was a little more tolerant of repeated writing.

The IBM Microdrive 340MB CF cards are actually tiny hard drives, with 
substantially higher write tolerance (ie. the same as any hard drive). 
I use them wherever possible in my vintage IBM PCs and clones wherever 
possible, since they're cheap and fast.
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