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- From: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: SUPER FAST/CHEAP PCMIA (?) cards?
- Message-ID: <20935@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 22:40:56 GMT
- References: <1992Aug22.015518.10946@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.arizona.edu
- Reply-To: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman)
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- Discliamer: Upon my being captured or killed, my professors will
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- In article <1992Aug22.015518.10946@midway.uchicago.edu>,
- Citizen ttak@midway.uchicago.edu writes :
- [talking about PCMIA cards]
- >OK, I've been reading short clips about this new storage technology
- >in MacWeek. What I know is that it might be $20 per card, which,
- >I think can hold about a gig? And it will be fast enough to act
- >as RAM, as well as disk storage. Is this true? When will it be out?
- >About how much would the special drive for this be?
-
- Uh, I remember reading some stuff on these cards in MacLeak and I'm pretty
- sure that the price would be $20 per megabyte, ie a 20meg card would run about
- $400. I also don't remeber reading about storage anywhere near a gig. Maybe
- I'm thinking of the wrong thing. Anyone else care to take a side?
-
- If they were $20 a card, yes the world would be changing, but at $20 a meg,
- prices need to drop seriously before these things revolutionize the world of
- memory.
-
- |--------------------------------| "If you were happy all of your life,
- | J. Taggart Gorman Jr. | you wouldn't be human - you'd be a
- | jtgorman@caslon.cs.arizona.edu | game show host."
- |--------------------------------| Winona Ryder, in _Heathers_
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