History (1992): Integral Peripherals Ships 60MB 1.8-Inch HDD

Integral Peripherals Inc. (Boulder, CO) is shipping a 60MB 1.8-inch disk drive.

The Maverick 1862 is being produced at the company’s pilot manufacturing facility in Boulder, CO. Volume manufacturing will start at Integral’s Singapore plant in 3Q93.

Integral is also producing the Maverick 1862P, a 60MB 1.8-inch drive that conforms to the PCMCIA-ATA standard at their Boulder facility.

The Maverick 1862 is a dual platter 1.8-inch drive measuring 15x51x77mm with an on-board controller and an IDE interface. It has a formatted capacity of 64.1MB, operates on a 5V power supply, weighs 95 grams, has an MTBF of 100,000 hours and withstands operating/non-operating shock of 10G and 300G, respectively. It has an IDE interface mapped to the 68-pin PCMCIA connector as per the PCMCIA ATA standard.

The 1862P is otherwise identical to the 40MB 1862 with the addition of rails which facilitate slot insertion into a PCMCIA receptacle on a to computer system motherboard. OEM ‘pricing is $375 for both the Maverick 1862 and 1862P.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue ≠53, published on June 1992.