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To: Ausdauer who wrote (5958)	6/7/1999 12:05:00 PM
From: Ron C	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Aus: Thanks for the great links.I enjoy reading related subjects that will do nothing but enhance the chances of an already successful (albeit misunderstood) company. tapr.org persistor.com And the info regarding the SmartMedia controversy was great,but, the "Feud" between CF,MMC and SM will no doubt continue long after Sony has thrown its "twig" into the consoling fire. No doubt in my mind which will prevail given the amount of information stored on CF, and the possible evolution of such a device as stated in the afore mentioned links. (Hard drive replacement) Ron.

To: Ausdauer who wrote (5958)	6/12/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: Gary Spiers	Respond to of 60323

Hi Aus, Can you make heads or tails out of these links... tapr.org persistor.com The first link is to a board that can connect to a standard IDE cable in a desktop computer so that a compact flash card can be accessed like a normal hard disk. The interest on that site is to install the Linux OS on the CF card and use it as a ruggedised boot system possibly even eliminating the conventional hard drives. Any operating could probably be booted in this manner. To be frank I am having trouble understanding what is original here except that it is a home brew 'do it yourself' deal for people with more time than money :-) The second link appears to be an entire computer cramed onto a CF card with all I/O etc taking place through the CF interface. I didn't look in too much detail but it is interesting. A maker of 'intelligent lab equipment' could use this as a mechanism to permit a base instrument to readily have different levels of upgradable intelligence depending on how much the customer would want to pay. I didn't look in depth at it. Gary