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To: NHP who wrote (21396)	12/30/2001 5:03:41 PM
From: Londo	Read Replies (2) of 60323

I've suggested to SanDisk that they look into producing such an adapter with hardware for mounting it into a 3.5" ported drive bay. This is a great idea, but can't be done, mainly because the consumer focus would be to create some sort of floppy disk (that you can stick a CF card in), and use that as an interface. The only problem is that the 3.5" floppy takes about 10 seconds to transfer its 1.4 megabytes of data, and now you can pick up 128 meg flash cards for under $100, I doubt people would want to spend money on an interface that is ultimately SLOW. If I mis-interpreted the technical requirements of what you were thinking, apologies. When you have a device that forces people to open up their computer cases, and hook up their floppy drive cables to devices, you've just exited the marketing realm of the consumer, and strictly into the computer guru area - a much smaller market. But still, if they sold such drives, I'd probably pick one up if it was under 50 bucks. But it wouldn't exactly be a high-margin business to get into - certainly out of SNDK's core competency.

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