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To: OrionX who wrote (5007)3/9/1999 5:46:00 PM
From: limtex   of 60323
 
OrionX

Microdrive? Not a snowflake in hells chance of being taken seriuosly in photography.

**Suffers from all the problems associated with centrifugal forces on spindle mountings. They don't like being moved around when they are spinning.

**Disk drives go wrong. We all know that. Everyone who has a computer or a laptop has had or knows of someone that has suffered a loss of data due to a malfunctioning disk drive.

**We've all been waiting to get rid of physically moving memory devices in relatively stable devices never mind cameras.

** Power consumption....

** Cost

** Lastly so far as cameras at least are concerned moving to an old fashioned obsolete technology like a rotating disk drive is a hugely retrograde step.

Regards,

L
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