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To: orkrious who wrote (19499)	3/8/2001 9:52:03 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 60323

Jay, re: "Craig, I don't disagree with you, but I clearly remember the day I bought a new computer with a 40 gig hard drive and thought the same thing." My first PC had a 30 MB hard drive. I remember the salesperson telling me I would never fill it up. John

To: orkrious who wrote (19499)	3/8/2001 1:43:07 PM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

Iomega just made their 40MB PocketZip obsolete. siliconinvestor.com So everyone who invested in a HipZip is now stuck with an obsolete device and the remaining IOM inventory is probably dead wood. I am not disheartened by IOM's efforts at all, really. I still think the flash's ruggedness, form factor, power consumption attributes and reusability will help propel further product designs. I still have trouble getting used to 64MB CompactFlash selling in the $70-90 range based on my first SanDisk purchase, a 15MB CompactFlash card I picked up at Ritz camera for $134.99 back in Spring of 1998! I trust that manufacturing efficiencies are driving down CF costs. Just thinking about a recent electronics purchase, a JVC DVD player that set me back about $200.00 compared to that one CF card purchase. And think of all the electronics in that player. Heck, there is probably more electronics in the remote control than there is in the whole flash card! Aus

To: orkrious who wrote (19499)	3/10/2001 1:16:02 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Jay, re:' I bought a new computer ..." I once bought a computer with a 10 megabyte hard drive that cost almost $10,000, weighed >100 pounds, and drew 450 watts of power (1977). In relative terms, being able to stuff gigabytes into one's pocket is quite a luxury. In the future, we may all have imbedded devices that store every thought and sensory input throughout our entire lifetimes. But if you had a 1,000 terabyte CF card today, what would you do with it that you couldn't do with 512MB or less? Craig