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To: WVKayaker

Yikes!

I need it... :-)


10 posted on 07/11/2009 8:58:43 PM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: Star Traveler

Yikes! I need it... :-)

Two years ago I was helping a friend fix his Windows PC along with another friend of his who was a Senior Microsoft Engineer and owner of six tech companies of his own including Inova (he wrote the power management software for the white LED flashlights that extended the battery life). He pulled out a Flash Drive that was slightly larger than normal that also had its own little LCD screen along with a slide switch. He handed it to me. The LCD screen said "32GB." He told me to push the switch to the other position... when I did, the screen now displayed "2TB!" I laughed and said "Great joke gadget." He replied, "Nope, it's a prototype. The 32GB mode allows regular Windows computers to see it... at least a lot of them will."

I asked him how much it cost... after he said "If you have to ask, you can't afford it!", he more seriously replied that if they were sale, they would be ruinously expensive. In a couple or three years you'll see them for sale when we get the price down and the memory dies more reliable. The failure rate on the dense memory chips is over 85% right now. That isn't good enough for production runs yet. I'm still waiting.

25 posted on 07/11/2009 9:29:28 PM PDT by Swordmaker (remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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