Re: A2 CF Card users - Trend Setters

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> Jeff Blakeney wrote:
>>   To: Michael J. Mahon
>> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:10:07 -0700, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>>
>>
>>>2 * 1024 = 2048 32MB partitions.  ;-(
>>
>>
>> You had me scratching my head there for a second trying to figure out
>> where you got the 2 from.  It would have been clearer to me had you
>> written it like so:
>>
>>     64 * 1024 / 32 = 2048 partitions
>>
>> In english, that would be a 64 GB storage volume multiplied by 1024 to
>> get the size in MB then divided by the largest ProDOS volume size of 32
>> MB to get 2048 partitions.  :-)
>
> I was just revealing how I think about it.  The the 2 is there because
> 64 is 2*32, and 1024 is the conversion from MB to GB.  Or:
>
> 64  GB
> ------  = 2 * 1024
> 32  MB
>
> The mind is a peculiar thing, and we all have computational shortcuts.
> I always try to "cancel" terms first, and leave multiplying and dividing
> as a last resort.  ;-)

Michael,

    Good formula -- thought...Better formula like this below?

    1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 64 = 68,719,476,736 bytes

    68,719,476,736 bytes / 512 bytes / 65,536 blocks = 2,048 32MB partitions

    I would say CFFA card is excellent for backup better than tape and 
DVD-/+RW.  I always avoid purchasing DVD-/+RW video recorder for TV / movie. 
I wait couple years later before CFFA card is going to replace DVD-ROM discs 
at Blockbuster Video store.
    Try to make huge thousand discs to fit into one CFFA card.  What about 
64GB RAM chip?  RAM chip ceases to exist.  Tiny thousand RAM chip is bult-in 
CPU chip so there is no RAM chip on the motherboard.

Bryan Parkoff