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what if Visors came with built-in CF slots instead of SB slots?

Currently, most Visors are manufactured with built-in SB slots. And there are adapters to accomodate CF cards.

What if Handspring made Visors with built-in CF slots instead of SB slots? And the Visors came with an adapter to accomodate the SBs?

Registered: Dec 1999
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While the Springboard and CF interfaces share the same physical connector, the electricals are vastly different. Since we haven't yet seen a true Springboard-to-CF adapter, we'll probably never see a CF-to-Springboard one. If Handspring were to abandon the Springboard altogether and go with a CF slot, there's still the issues of software drivers before we'd be able to use any of the available CF peripherals.

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Re: what if Visors came with built-in CF slots instead of SB slots?

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Originally posted by namja
Currently, most Visors are manufactured with built-in SB slots. And there are adapters to accomodate CF cards.

What if Handspring made Visors with built-in CF slots instead of SB slots? And the Visors came with an adapter to accomodate the SBs?

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Registered: May 2001
Location: Chicago
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Dear sweet nambja,

Well if Handspring did that the all the psycho Visor people here would go mentaly crazy trying to figure out what to do with all thier springboard modules, which i assume they bought when the modules first came out and were overpriced.
Now would you really want people to go koo-koo?

Registered: Dec 2000
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What would Handspring have over the compatition?

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it seems like no one is developing new springboards though ... and that's making me

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Originally posted by namja
it seems like no one is developing new springboards though ... and that's making me

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