Re: Digital hard drive (was Re: project)

[90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T)]

In article <CAHIv7.KG7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, Michael J. K. writes...
> 
> Some years ago Canon announced a prototype storage system that utilized
> credit card-sized non-volitale RAM cards.

    Sounds like FlashCard or FlashRAM technology...  I hear some PCMCIA
(hope I spelled that right) manufacturers are looking at FlashRAM
modules for laptops and notebooks.  It doesn't seem to be catching on
though, especially with 2.5" and 1" low-power hard drives...

> BTW:  just how fast are flopticals?  Access and throughput?

    Access probably isn't much faster than an HD floppy, but throughput
is rated at 2 to 3 times faster than a regular 3.5".
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