History 2000: Marqlin, New Californian Start-Up
Into HDD with size of CompactFlash card
By Jean Jacques Maleval | October 19, 2022 at 2:01 pmDetails are scarce on one of the newest HDD drive manufacturers.
MarQlin is a California-based start-up, which plans by mid-2001 to begin production of a device the size of a CompactFlash card, or 42.8×36.4mm, although the thickness is not yet known.
We do know the CEO, Gilbert D. Springer, who as early as 1996 had an idea for a 1.1-inch form factor HDD, when he was president of ThinSpin LLC, recently acquired by another start-up working in the same sector, Halo Data Devices, founded in 1998.
Which means there are at least 2 potential competitors for IBM an its Microdrive.
This article is an abstract of news published on issue 148 on May 2000 from the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter.
Note: Marqlin disappears few years later.