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Re: Carte Blanche for the IIc



srkh28@gmail.com wrote:

.. Just to seed a few idea's - has anyone seen these wireless SD
cards?


http://www.eye.fi/cards/


They are wireless SD storage cards. Information is used in one system,
but updated wirelessly by another.  I cant help but think, a wireless
SD card in a II with a wireless connection back to, say, a PC, which
would serve as a "Dynamic Hard Disk" for a II. As soon as an image is
downloaded, it goes strait onto the II's hard disk - ready to go.
Alex's Pseudo Disk ][ pretty much already works this way - especially
since it works with FAT formatted SD's and compressed images.

My understanding is that they are "one way" devices that send
new .jpg files to a (PC) server--or, actually, *through* a PC
running their proprietary software to an internet server.

It is meant to be a "turnkey" application, and it's hard to separate
out the actual functionality limits of the card vs. the PC program
vs. the server.

There is certainly no functionality to write files to the card
via the wireless link.

-michael

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