From: Christopher Sullivan (feedle@feedle.net)
Date: 05/15/00-06:09:50 PM Z
On Mon, 15 May 2000, ... wrote:
>
> Sorry to bother you guys, but I have an idea...
> I and a few friends are on a list about wearable
> computing (wear-comp) and have thought about
> some of the nifty things we can do with our
> wearables with the sandisks..
Hey. I think a lot of people that are interested in hacking i-appliances
are also interested in wearables... forward me a copy of the mailing list
subscribe info, okay?
> Since they seem to be causing only trouble
> to you guys (or are useless for desktop applications
> because of the limited read-write capability),
> how many of you would be interested in helping
> a fellow geek out - I'll buy a few sandisk units you
> guys don't want for a few bucks, someone can
> use them for their wearcomps, and you can have
> a few extra bux in your pocket...
First off, the "limited write" capability isn't that big of a deal. A
discussion on the i-opener list resulted in the opinion that it was
comparable to a number of years of reasonable use. I still wouldn't
recommend using it for a swap device, but I wouldn't be afraid of
mounting a /home partition off of it, either.
The big problem is the Sandisk unit on the i-opener is soldered on to the
motherboard.
Note that Disk On Chip chips are fairly cheap, and it is not difficult to
find SBC vendors that sell US$250-300 Super 7 boards that include 16 or 32
megs of DoC. Also, I saw at N+I last week a couple of Super 7 boards that
had a Compact Flash slot on them. While the power requirements of a
full-blown Pentium-class Super 7 board is probably not in the realm of
what I consider "wearable", it does show that the technology is coming to
the hobbyist community Real Soon Now(tm).
-fedl
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