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- From: wbeebe@bilver.uucp (Bill Beebe)
- Subject: Re: Flash Cards
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:47:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.184708.13453@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1992Aug17.102539.8782@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Aug17.102539.8782@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> rda758g@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (A.J. Kleinert) writes:
- >The "new" intel flash cards were one of the features of a local computer
- >show here recently ... one of the Sales guys advised me that they
- >weren't actually for sale yet, but when they will be around
- >the US$800.00 mark for a 20 Mb card. Isn't this is a little expensive for
- >a solid state device? Were 3.5 inch floppy disks anything like this price
- >when they first came out?
-
- Well, look at it this way. HP is selling their Kittyhawk 1.8" disk drive
- for $250 in OEM quantities (10,000, I think). It's about the size of a
- box of matches, and HP is working on a PCMCIA (is that the right acronym?)
- version. I think Intel is a little lost on this one. Not only are the sectors
- huge, but it's a lot more difficult to use as a disk drive replacement
- software-wise.
-
- >I also enquired into the price of the Overdrive processor - about US$800
- >also!! (I commented that I could purchase a brand new 486DX33 motherboard
- >for about this price - he commented that this is new wonderful technology
- >that is bound to go down in price once the market settles down, just as
- >the 387's did). Hmmm.
-
- Well, here in Central Florida I have been quoted US$209 (yes, US$209) for
- a 25MHz 486SX motherboard w/o memory, and US$350 for the DX version. While
- it's not the same speed rating, it should give you some feel for MBs. FWIW,
- these MBs are Taiwanese, _NO_ cache, interleaved memory, ISA bus MBs. And
- when I say _NO_ cache, that's no _EXTERNAL_ cache. A good interleaved memory
- system doesn't need an external cache, as I discovered some time back with
- 25MHz 386DX processors.
-
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