On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 at 02:37:27, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>At 02:22 ðì 13/4/2002, Tony "The Wizard" Firshman wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 at 21:19:52, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
>
><Snippety - Snip>
>>..., think again.... Even with
>> >the fastest card, due to QubIDE restrictions (yep 8 bit bus and all the
>> >magic Nasta performs in order to make this thing work :-) It is a lot
>> >slower than the RomDisq.
>>Phew (8-#
>
>Oh I said it many times... by far the RomDisq is the fastest flash
>drive i've seen.... If only there was a larger version... (Say 64 Meg
>:-)
There could easily (technically) be a 16mb version. Tony Tebby has
catered for every 2mb boundary, so no problem there. I have got the
address line there. When I designed RD there was a address pin sequence
up to 2mb (per chip) but the next pin (4mb) was NC. I asked _everyone_
including the manufacturer, but they said 'dunno'. The 4mb chip arrived
and the address pin was exactly where I had guessed. Stuart would need
to change his code, but that is not the problem.
Right now I have to buy in 96 units for each of the two types of flash
chips. However the minimum buy for 4mb chips is 484 per chip, and they
cost more than twice the 2mb chip. This is an outlay of at least
£10,000, so is impossible. I will have another look see.
>
>P.S. Have fun at the AGM (I suppose that's why you're up so early right?)
Yep - and am back now.
Was a good event (for me). It was amusing to find that Robin Barker had
not been told about the error including Bill Newell on the list of
people standing. I wonder what happened?
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