Microdrive is getting affordable

From: Shuvalov, Andrew V (Andrew.Shuvalov@gs.com)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 12:17:55 EDT

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Hi,

Let see the prices:
iPaq 36x0 w. 64 Meg RAM is $250 on eBay
PC card sleeve $120 on eBay
Toshiba 2 Gb PC card microdrive is $85+s/h on eBay

Total: $470 for a pretty much full blown computer.

Conclusion: booting from IDE harddrive is going mainstream fast. Bootloader
must be adjusted to support ext2/ext3 and dual/triple boot before Familiar
can use it for plug-and-play IDE distro. The configuration of dual-boot:
basic organizer in Flash, portable entertainment center at IDE.
Do you think the mentioned adjustment in booloader can drive a broad
platform acceptance?

Thanks,
Andrew

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