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On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Paul Rubin wrote: > Flash cards work real well, but their expensive! I got my 5MB card > (mine is a genuine IBM, like 50% of my hardware!), and it installed > easily for OS/2, and DOS when I had it in my machine. I paid about > 90 bucks for it from a surplus place, but the retail places should be > lowering to that range about now. > > Thanks. I got a couple of IBM 10 MB cards for $150 each last year, > but you can get them for around $100 now surplus. IBM cards are > actually made by Sandisk. Larger cards seem to be around $12.50/MB. I was one of the lucky ones who got the 15MB Sandisk cards before they ran out. Buyers should beware that the bargain Sandisk cards do not work with the Kodak digital cameras IIRC. > I've had the idea of doing a Linux installation using a 20 MB ramdisk > to hold system files (so they can vanish at shutdown and be restored > from HD at reboot) and a 10 MB flash card for user files. But > that's only 30 MB of space, not much for Linux; and it requires > hacking up the software in various ways to split the system across > three file systems (flash, ram, and HD). So the easiest way is > probably to just buy a large, expensive flash card. If my financial > condition improves in the next year I'll seriously consider it. Just keep in mind that just a little more than a decade ago, 20MB meant a great big winchester drive about the size of a phonograph player (do you realize a generation is growing up who don't understand the phrase, "sounds like a broken record"? :) Ack, I'm rambling. :) -- John H. Kim kim@mak.com