Re: [NTLK] re Flash cards

From: Robert Benschop (rbenschop_at_euronet.nl)
Date: Wed Aug 20 2003 - 11:58:23 PDT

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Dave Rutledge wrote:
> I have 3 original Newton Flash cards from Apple, and they seem to be
> acting
> just fine. Can anyone tell me there life expectancy? Will they just
> die
> some day? They are now approx. 8 years old.

If I remember right Flash Cards were rated in amount of read/write
cycles, now this is from a long time ago but I seem to remember a
number of 100.000 and over.
(but after all these years I might be mixing things up and these might
be the numbers for Nikon SLR shutters ;-)

Robert Benschop

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