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At 10:56 PM 9/2/97 -0700, 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'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 Some folks mentioned Flash cards can be cheaply obtained at surplus places. Would you kindly point to some? URL's or phone numbers would be great. ------- Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu (213) 740-7775 Director, Electronic Commerce Program Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California