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To: greenspirit who wrote (47314)	2/6/1998 12:14:00 AM
From: Fred Fahmy	Respond to of 186894

Michael, Currently, the two most popular storage media's are Compact Flash and Smartmedia. Both are relatively small and compact. Smartmedia prices have come down to where they about the same as compact flash at about $7-8/meg. I think any media solution has to be relatively small. As you probably know, IOM is working on their own solution (i.e. Clik!) which is sort of like a mini ZIP disk. It will be slower than compact flash or SSFDC but it will be an order of magnitude cheaper. It will be interesting to see which media becomes dominant. As for transferring to a desktop, this is typically done via a serial cable. I don't like using the cable because it is too slow (like 20-30 seconds for a hi res photo). This compares to 2-3 seconds reading directly from the SSFDC directly. Right now what I do is read the pictures into my notebook using the PC card adapter and if I want to transfer some pictures to my desktop I just copy them to my internal notebook ZIP drive. Once on a ZIP disk I can easily read them on my desktop at home or at work or at my friends or relatives. I will probably eventually get a PC Card reader for my desktop. They aren't that expensive and you can then share any of your PCMCIA cards between the notebook and desktop. Isn't technology wonderful. I don't think DVD is in the cards as a film media. It might be used to store and archive pictures once the writeable DVD's are available, but I don't think there is a direct link. The DVD explosion is going to be yet another new and exciting opportunity for many players in the industry. FF