[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: 128 or 512?

[paulh96636 at aol.com]

I'm still curious to find out about the possibility of using IBM's MicroDrive (now by Hitachi)...  Wouldn't this
drive overcome the write problems of CF devices?     -ph 
 
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From: deek at d2dc.net
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Sent: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Re: 128 or 512?


Jim Cox wrote:
> Why James?  Would the issue be the limited writes of the 
> flash cards?

Compact Flash is a device form factor, not a memory technology...and all CF
cards are also IDE devices. Even the slowest memory is way faster than over
the CompactFlash interface, even discounting the write problems of the CF
devices that are Flash-based.

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