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To: Michael Kim who wrote (13404)	7/29/2000 4:03:44 AM
From: thecalculator	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Repeat sales BINGO! You hit the crux of it... I would prefer not to participate in a future where I have to sort and keep track of a bunch of little memory cards, postage-sized ones at that, for personal data archival purposes. What a personal logistics nightmare that would be! Instead, let's get that data as fast as possible over to networked rotating media where we can conveniently access, search, sort, and archive it. A plausible scenario shaping up is one or two cards purchased per device at most, and remaining in the device most of the time.....which therefore seems to look like an almost permanently embedded memory solution to me. And so look for companies like Intel to establish protocol bus standards for interchangeable embedded memory, in their attempts to skirt the scenario where flash card slots are a necessity. Look for SanDisk to respond by integrating more and more functions in the controller. How about a CMOS image sensor integrated in the controller? How about in the future, the memory card becomes the camera?

To: Michael Kim who wrote (13404)	7/29/2000 9:30:55 AM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Michael, Where can one get those naked pictures of your GF? Ausdauer

To: Michael Kim who wrote (13404)	7/31/2000 2:28:31 PM
From: Gary Kao	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Michael: so you do use the serial transfer cord to download? How much time does that take to clear the 48 mb CF card? (hours?). Last but not least...I'll BUY one of those archival CDs!!! <g> Gary >I am a gadget junkie, but now that I have a 48mb CF in my Coolpix, I have yet to takeit out. I shoot my pics, then hook the camera up for a download and clear the card - ready for another shoot. Now this will all change since I just got my SanDisk Imagemate USB reader - but here I will just be taking the card out to download it and clear it. Then it goes back in. From there I would archive those naked pictures of my girlfriend onto a CD-ROM - CF is still way to expensive to justify using it as a backup. CD's cost less than $0.50. So why do I need another CF card? Sure if I have another device, i.e. cellphone, Palm Pilot, I would most likely have dedicated CF for each, but would I need more than one per? The question I'm leading up to is this: How strong will the demand be for CF beyond the initial purchase? And how important is removability?