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-- MatchBookDrive + Microdrive = 340MB (http://discussion.visorcentral.com/vcforum/showthread.php?threadid=14552)

Posted by cfralick on 05-01-2001 01:03 AM:

Wow!! Aren't we taking this a little too far? Is this really something we need? I wonder if my battery would last long enough to back up 340MB.

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Posted by miradu on 05-01-2001 01:32 AM:

Not at all, now we have enough storage to watch a WHOLE MOVIE on our Vsr!! YEAH!!! I can't wait untill Harry Potter comes out on Vsr form!

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Posted by BudPritchard on 05-01-2001 02:43 AM:

Very worthwhile

I feel this would be very useful for certain groups, such as the medical field. PDR reference, patient records, plus other crucial references.

This is one reason that I feel the Springboard implementation is the better choice over other designs.

Was the main reason I bought the Visor a year ago. The Backup module has saved my butt a few times.

Posted by cfralick on 05-01-2001 05:22 AM:

I can see your point as far as reference materials and such but do I really want to watch a full lenth movie on a visor screen? I'm afriad I would a) spill my large diet coke on my visor b) get popcorn grease all over the screen c) run out of battery power before the end of the movie (with backlight on) d) all of the above. Plus I might save a few dollars.

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Posted by Fat_Man on 05-01-2001 06:31 AM:

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Originally posted by cfralick
Wow!! Aren't we taking this a little too far? Is this really something we need? I wonder if my battery would last long enough to back up 340MB.

I think I agree with you there Clark, 350MB's does seem much, and 1GB is almost impracticle. I think that if you download every single Palm file and database out there, the sum would not equal close to 1GB.

As for medical applications, there are not enough medical apps and database to fill even 350MB's. Consider that the Merck Manual (one of the biggest databases) is only about 4mb's. The Physician Desk Ref. is about 7mb's.

Viewing movies, pictures, maybe storage of mp3's may be useful with the memory.

Just my $0.02

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Posted by ethos on 05-01-2001 12:55 PM:

I think this is awesome. And whether we agree with it or not it's going to happen. It's just a matter of who makes it happen first. Smaller device but yet larger storage. I think it opens up new possibilities, maybe not yet even thought of. As technology moves on it's inevitable that these devices will get more storage, more memory, more powerful and faster.

I welcome the Matchbook + Microdrive SB. I'd want one!

I wonder if it will allow apps to write to it directly???

Ethos

Posted by mpkirby on 05-01-2001 06:49 PM:

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I think I agree with you there Clark, 350MB's does seem much, and 1GB is almost impracticle. I think that if you download every single Palm file and database out there, the sum would not equal close to 1GB.

I'm working from memory here (no pun intended), but didn't Bill Gates once say "640k is enough for anybody" when asked about the inherit memory limitation in MS-DOS?

My point is this-- technical limitations breed limited thinking. Before computers could access gigabytes of information, nobody thought it would EVER be necessary for a home computer to have that much storage. And when those massive storage devices first came out, they WERE unnecessary, because nobody had to utilize that much storage, because nobody COULD before then, so computing solutions were built around that limitation. Heck, I remember when having 2 floppy drives was a necessity-- otherwise, how would you make a copy of something?

Of course, multi-GB hard drives have allowed software engineers to bloat their products with sloppy code and inefficient use of resources-- it's a two-edged sword. Overall, though, I think everyone will agree that today's home computer can do more and is more useful to home users than the home computer of 1992 (which was a state-of-the-art 486 with 4MB of RAM and a 210MB hard drive, btw).

What use would I have for 1GB of storage on my Visor Prism? I have no idea-- but I'm excited about finding out!

-kirb

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Posted by Jeromel on 05-01-2001 08:12 PM:

I think Clark's point is power drain, MicroDrive drain power very fast, Though large storage make everything possible , but no power make everything impossible . So MicroDrive is not very useful right now. But this is the first step for our dream.

Posted by waytoomuchcoffe on 05-01-2001 09:10 PM:

Re: Very worthwhile

quote:
Originally posted by BudPritchard
I feel this would be very useful for certain groups, such as the medical field. PDR reference, patient records, plus other crucial references.

This is one reason that I feel the Springboard implementation is the better choice over other designs.

Actually, I would think the TRGPro (and upcoming Handera) is more useful in this regard. Currently, flash memory for the TRG is available up to 300MB. Also, the TRG and Handera can use the 1Gig Microdrive right now, without any supplemental power.

Posted by Anomaly on 05-01-2001 09:35 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Jeromel
I think Clark's point is power drain, MicroDrive drain power very fast, Though large storage make everything possible , but no power make everything impossible . So MicroDrive is not very useful right now. But this is the first step for our dream.

Doesn't the announcement say that it will have a battery pack or a wall plug?

Posted by bkbk on 05-02-2001 03:17 AM:

"I'm working from memory here (no pun intended), but didn't Bill Gates once say "640k is enough for anybody" when asked about the inherit memory limitation in MS-DOS?"

Yeah -- & when in college, he discovered the Internet, but could not discern any usefulness it might have for anyone.

I remem. when the 1st 1Gb HDs for PCs came out ... a friend actually turned to me in the car (my mind snapped a photo that's indelible) and said: "Can you imagine ... a GIGAbyte ...!!!" I remem. nodding my head w/awe!

Finally, I'm pretty sure Gates also once said:
"Having sex just once in your life is plenty!"
(jk)

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Posted by Jeromel on 05-02-2001 04:44 AM:

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Originally posted by Anomaly

Doesn't the announcement say that it will have a battery pack or a wall plug?

Sorry,I didn't notice that, but I still can't see what the battery pack look like? anybody know??

Posted by EricG on 05-02-2001 05:32 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by Jeromel

Sorry,I didn't notice that, but I still can't see what the battery pack look like? anybody know??

If they didn't mention it (or say a lot about it), it's probably not going to be small (relative to the Visor anyway)..

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Posted by Gameboy70 on 05-02-2001 05:53 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by mpkirby
I'm working from memory here (no pun intended), but didn't Bill Gates once say "640k is enough for anybody" when asked about the inherit memory limitation in MS-DOS?

As a part-time MS basher, this time I'll stick up for The Man. The "640k ought to be enough for anybody," is almost always quoted out of context. He said that at the time the IBM PC was just introduced, and he was boasting about IBM's hardware acheivement: 640k was enormous at a time when everyone was running VisiCalc on 64k Apple II machines. Bill's no soothsayer, but he's no idiot, either.

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