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On Wed, 3 Sep 1997 11:07:11 -0400 (EDT) John Kim <kim@mak.com> writes: >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 I remember, and I'm only a 3 months from being 18. I have a working 8 track, record player, and also a working, vintage Seacrate ST-412, in my XT. Funny, how I compare that to my IBM Flashcard, and the 85ms. access time to 24x CD-ROMs. Boy, have times changed. Paul