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To: Tumbleweed who wrote (4659)	2/3/1999 9:18:00 AM
From: Ron C	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Thread: DESCRIPTION 5,867,429 High density non-volatile flash memory without adverse effects of electric field coupling between adjacent floating gates 5,867,417 Computer memory cards using flash EEPROM integrated circuit chips and memory-controller systems Two new patents issued this past month to SNDK. What about Lexar? Ron <28> holding

To: Tumbleweed who wrote (4659)	2/8/1999 9:14:00 AM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Joe, The Journada comes both in a Jupiter form and a form factor similar to Palm III with a color LCD display. Until there is a significant Windows CE upgrade, the sub-notebooks running on the "adult" Windows OS will continue to be preferable. I see the Jupiter class of palm PC's winning out in the end given the superior battery life and lack of moving parts. Ausdauer

To: Tumbleweed who wrote (4659)	2/8/1999 2:46:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Joe, I am curious if you are aware of the utility of CF in PDA's. I have posed this question several times and nobody on this thread appears to own a PDA. A colleague has a Newton which he uses to make notes for medical histories and physicals. He has tailored software which resides on a type II PCMCIA card and a pick list for common exam findings, medications, etc. He can run the software from the card without consuming the on-board memory. He actually has several other software titles on the memory card which he accesses as he needs. Also, I think once internet access with PDA's reaches an acceptable level of sophistication that CF memory could be used as a cache for loaded web pages. My personal interest in having the ability to expand software titles for a PDA would be either language translation software, foreign dictionaries or alternative fonts to accomodate foreign languages such as German or Swedish that have additional vowels. I also understand that programs are available for upgrading to on-screen recognition of cursive (handwritten) notations, rather than graffiti. If the Motorola upgrade is feasible, then it may be technically feasible to consider an antenna to convert the PDA into a GPS system whereby one could then download local maps (via the IR port at a local gas station, for example) onto a CF card. The other applications I see as potentially driving CF forward include Microsoft CE software that can run .mp3 files. I see the PDA or flash-based sub-notebook as an area with many interesting future applications. By the next century we should expect the PDA to be a generic tool which each user can personalize to fulfill individual needs and tastes. That is not the case presently. (They seem no more than a glorified scratch pad.) Ausdauer