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In article <1992Aug17.102539.8782@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> rda758g@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (A.J. Kleinert) writes:
>The "new" intel flash cards were one of the features of a local computer
>show here recently ... one of the Sales guys advised me that they
>weren't actually for sale yet, but when they will be around
>the US$800.00 mark for a 20 Mb card.  Isn't this is a little expensive for
>a solid state device?  Were 3.5 inch floppy disks anything like this price
>when they first came out?

Well, look at it this way. HP is selling their Kittyhawk 1.8" disk drive
for $250 in OEM quantities (10,000, I think). It's about the size of a
box of matches, and HP is working on a PCMCIA (is that the right acronym?)
version. I think Intel is a little lost on this one. Not only are the sectors
huge, but it's a lot more difficult to use as a disk drive replacement
software-wise.

>I also enquired into the price of the Overdrive processor - about US$800
>also!!  (I commented that I could purchase a brand new 486DX33 motherboard
>for about this price - he commented that this is new wonderful technology  
>that is bound to go down in price once the market settles down, just as
>the 387's did).  Hmmm.

Well, here in Central Florida I have been quoted US$209 (yes, US$209) for
a 25MHz 486SX motherboard w/o memory, and US$350 for the DX version. While
it's not the same speed rating, it should give you some feel for MBs. FWIW,
these MBs are Taiwanese, _NO_ cache, interleaved memory, ISA bus MBs. And
when I say _NO_ cache, that's no _EXTERNAL_ cache. A good interleaved memory
system doesn't need an external cache, as I discovered some time back with
25MHz 386DX processors.

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