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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?

  20MB hard drives were more than that when they came out. Are you
looking at this as a checp 20MB hard drive, or memeory which stays
around when you power off, or what? My reading is that this fills the
spot which was occupied by bubble memory, for a relatively large stable
memory /which is not vibration sensitive/ in industrial applications.
They also don't take in air to float the heads, since clean air is often
not availbale in industrial situations.

  Unless the figure for number of writes has improved I don't think I
want to use it for a general purpose hard drive, for sure.

| Any comments on these pricing policies?

  Looks fair to me, we will probably use them for a number of
applications where even the best little hard drives tend to fail.
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