* Microdrives are not as fast as the high-end CompactFlash cards ; they generally operate at around 4 – 6 megabytes per second while high-end CF cards can operate at 45 megabytes per second.

* Only high capacity models are manufactured, as it is not profitable to make low-capacity Microdrives.

* Since Microdrives are often integrated in another device, this can cause trouble if the drive breaks.

Companies making such players order the Microdrives in large quantities, which can mean that it is cheaper to buy an mp3 player with an integrated Microdrive than a separate Microdrive to add to an expandable mp3 player.

Microdrives had been introduced for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in July 1983, although the QL used a different logical tape format.

The QL also suffered from reliability problems of its Microdrives.

These problems were later rectified, by Sinclair engineers, especially on Samsung produced models, as well as by aftermarket firms such as Adman Services and TF Services — to the point where several QL users report their Microdrives working perfectly even after almost 17 years of service ( for Samsung QLs ) — but in any case much too late to redeem the negative image they had already created.

The QL's CPU, ZX8301 and ZX8302 ULAs and ZX Microdrives also formed the basis of International Computers Limited's ( ICL's ) One Per Desk ( OPD )-also marketed by British Telecom as the Merlin Tonto and by Telecom Australia as the Computerphone.

Pandora had a flat-screen monitor and Microdrives and was intended to be Sinclair's business portable.

The ZX Interface 1 add-on module included 8 kB of ROM, an RS-232 serial port, a proprietary LAN interface ( called ZX Net ), and an interface for the connection of up to eight ZX Microdrives – somewhat unreliable but speedy tape-loop cartridge storage devices released in July 1983.

While some older digital camcorders record video on Microdrives and size-reduced DVD-RAM or DVD-Rs, as of 2011 most recent camcorders record video on flash memory devices and small hard disks, using MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 formats.

Unlike most of the competing systems, this was compatible with the Sinclair's extended ROM, meaning that the same BASIC commands used to operate Microdrives or the ZX Printer now could control floppy disk drives or a standard parallel printer.

The floppy drives simply appeared to Microdrive-aware applications to be very big, fast Microdrives.

A wedge-shaped device fitting underneath the ZX Spectrum, ZX Interface 1 contained 8 kB of ROM comprising the control software for the Microdrives, RS-232 port and network interface.

However, ' microdrive ' is not a genericized trademark and manufacturers other than IBM up to 2003 and Hitachi after do not officially refer to these drives as Microdrives.

* The original JVC Everio camcorders ( GZ-MC200 / MC100 ) used 4GB IBM / Hitachi Microdrives as storage instead of the magnetic tape or DVD more commonly seen in products of this type.

* Some PDA users use Microdrives to boost the storage capacity of their PDA.

* When combined with a PCMCIA adaptor and used in a laptop Microdrives can be a viable alternative to USB flash drives purely due to their price.

The use of Microdrives over chip-based CF cards is unlikely to make any notable difference to the battery life of the laptop, and any impact that would damage the Microdrive is likely to break other components of the laptop as well.

Unfortunately, Microdrives taken from such devices may not work in digital cameras.

Such drives, therefore, do not sell for nearly as much as CF-enabled Microdrives.

* Until 2006, Microdrives had higher capacity than CompactFlash cards.

* Microdrives allow more write cycles, making them suitable for use as swapspace in embedded applications.

* Microdrives might be better at handling power loss in the middle of writing.

* Outside of the professional photography market, Microdrives have more limited popularity by general consumers because many newer compact cameras lack CF / CF II slots due to the increasing popularity of portable flash media.

The reasons for the Whig joy on this occasion are found to be their expectation of regaining control of the government, their delight at the prospect of a new war, their hopes of having the Tories hanged, and so on.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

I found myself becoming one of that group of people who, in Carlyle's words, `` are forever gazing into their own navels, anxiously asking ' Am I right, am I wrong ' ''??

Wine glass heels are to be found in both high and semi-heights.

The citrus tones popular in clothing are also to be found afoot.

The fossilized remains of many of these trees are found embedded in the clay.

More importantly, several of the more advanced of the less developed countries have found through experience that they must plan their own complex investment programs for at least 5 years forward and tentatively for considerably more than that if they are to be sure that the various interdependent activities involved are all to take place in the proper sequence.

But his business also grew, and we are told that Mr. Brown found it increasingly difficult to devote as much time to his creative thinking as his inclinations led him to desire.

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The fish, animals, and birds which may be found at the site are another interest.

Fishing interest calls for a check of the species found, quantity and size, the season they are available, and the stocking program of the fish commission.

Commonly used electronic devices which are found in practically every hospital are closed-circuit TV and audio systems for internal paging and instruction, along with radiation counters, timers, and similar devices.

These are only halfway measures, and the answer will come when some way is found to allow the technical man in industry to progress without limit in salary and prestige ''.

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Wage-price policies of industry are the result of a complex of forces -- no single explanation has been found which applies to all cases.

Much progress has been made in the last two decades in developing techniques for understanding children, yet in almost any classroom today can be found children whose needs are not being met by the school program.

These are those operating and capital costs found to vary with number of customers regardless, or almost regardless, of power consumption.

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Once many significant phrases are found in theory or in recurrent practice to provide for prosodic necessity, they are not to be defended for their semantic properties in isolated contexts.