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To: Cameron Dorey who wrote (220)12/10/1996 7:30:00 PM
From: Roberts   of 60323
 
Most of the new cameras and PDAs have the option of wireless and/or cable downloads. I agree that a PCMCIA card reader is overkill on most PCs. Although device to device, swapping a PCMCIA card is the way to go. I believe that the serial port (to a PC) is still the easiest way to go on most platforms.

I understand and appreciate your thoughts, but at the same time I still don't see a shipping product or the name of even one OEM partner. In your heart of hearts don't you believe that a pure digital chip solution is the likely outcome once prices come down? (although I admit that flash cards originally were going to put hard-drive cos. out of business).

The flash solution also represents a quick way for people to upgrade capacity as prices come down. Remember when a 100 meg. hard drive was impressive. In the big picture (excuse the pun) resolutions will be increased significantly on digital cameras causing even greater storage requirements. Will a 20 meg. drive suffice 3 years from now? Additionally these cards will be used in an increasingly wide range of products (two effects: economies of scale help drive down flash prices, and two increases the cost to incorporate a disk-drive in each additional product)

- Brian
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