I just don't think there's really that much of a need for 256M of
storage in a Newton. It just seems, well, not a very encouraging thing
for the Newton community to be charging such a high price for something
that could be very useful to more people if the price were lower, like
Hiroshi's wireless driver.
At $50, I think the ATA driver will see a lot of purchase from people
that -need- 128M+ storage on a Newt, but not a heck of a lot from people
that just think it'd be nice to have. I suspect he'd sell a lot more if
the price were down around $25 or so, compared to what he'll sell at
$50.
Hiroshi's wireless driver is cheap enough that as soon as I can afford
the wireless card, I'll be able to spring for his driver without any
problem. But this ATA driver is in a price range where I'd seriously
have to reconsider. Sushi's right, 128M really is a break point for
price, but since the Newton isn't a particularly great multimedia device
(no stereo sound, no headphone jack, modplayer crashes on me) there's no
_need_ for huge storage.
At $25 or so, I'd be able to consider getting the driver when it's
finished. At $50, I'll just hit eBay for linear flash when I need more
space than I have.
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[mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net] On Behalf Of Jochen Sch=E4fer
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 9:33 AM
To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Subject: Re: [NTLK] [ANN] ATA Support 1.0b13
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 15:03:32 +0200, Robert Locatelli wrote:
>
>Am 28.7.2002 13:32 Uhr schrieb "Sushi" unter <Sushi_at_ragingbull.com>:
....
>Personally I think that 256MB storage space won't work smoothly.
Especially
>if one doesn't care about freezing unused pkgs and installed many. The
other
>limitation I would assume in access speed to e.g. a very large names
soup as
>well as unknown problems with indexing of really huge soups which are
>distributed over many smaller card partitions.
>Or does anyone have a names file with 64MB size AND reasonable speed?
But you can partition the card and mount the partition independed, so
that you really don't need to handle a store of 256 MB.
Jochen
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