From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 08:06:58 PDT
On 23/09/02 10:51, "COCCORP_at_aol.com" <COCCORP_at_aol.com> wrote:
> I was cleaning out my desk at my office (long overdue) and found a bevy of
> Flash Storage cards for the Newton.
>
> Five Newton 2mb cards, and one Pretec 4mb flash card.
>
> Now I am posting for two reasons:
>
> (1) I don't believe ANY of these ever worked for me, or if they did they did
> not work for long. What was the deal w/ these cards in general? I only used
> (and use) 1.3 OS Newtons, and with any storage card I ever had it was always
> a "50/50" proposition that they would work for along time. Then when I found
> one that did, I usually LEFT IT in my newton for eternity!
>
> (2) Does anyone have any use for these problem-cards?
These cards should work for a very long time. However, if the 2MB cards are
SRAM instead of Flash RAM, then they would need a battery to hold their
content and if the battery goes dead, then I guess they wouldn't work very
well...
-Laurent.
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