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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: Flash Cards
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.133302.3243@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 13:33:02 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.102539.8782@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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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?
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- 20MB hard drives were more than that when they came out. Are you
- looking at this as a checp 20MB hard drive, or memeory which stays
- around when you power off, or what? My reading is that this fills the
- spot which was occupied by bubble memory, for a relatively large stable
- memory /which is not vibration sensitive/ in industrial applications.
- They also don't take in air to float the heads, since clean air is often
- not availbale in industrial situations.
-
- Unless the figure for number of writes has improved I don't think I
- want to use it for a general purpose hard drive, for sure.
-
- | Any comments on these pricing policies?
-
- Looks fair to me, we will probably use them for a number of
- applications where even the best little hard drives tend to fail.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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