Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!sambo From: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Father of micro-ln) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: what's needed for a home pc Message-ID: <2190@ukma.UUCP> Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 22:10:44 EDT Article-I.D.: ukma.2190 Posted: Sat Sep 14 22:10:44 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 12:20:11 EDT References: <944@qumix.UUCP> <86@intelca.UUCP> Reply-To: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Father of micro-ln) Distribution: net Organization: Univ. of KY Mathematical Sciences Lines: 24 In article <86@intelca.UUCP> cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes: >> Has anyone done market research on what's needed for a HOME pc? My >> feeling is this: >> I don't see the need for a disk drive or tape storeage but would >> use eeprom for storeage. > >You would be >better off using Epson's technique of battery backed up RAM for mass >storage. You should also consider that as a general rule of thumb the >minimum amount of mass storage provided for a system should be 10 times >the amount of main memory. And at least 5% of that should be removeable >(although this is not always the case) Intel makes bubble memory. Although I have no idea if this would be a suit- able system for this application, at least such a thing is reported to exist. Intel even has a bubble memory cassette system, which is removable. -- Samuel A. Figueroa, Dept. of CS, Univ. of KY, Lexington, KY 40506-0027 ARPA: ukma!sambo<@ANL-MCS>, or sambo%ukma.uucp@anl-mcs.arpa, or even anlams!ukma!sambo@ucbvax.arpa UUCP: {ucbvax,unmvax,boulder,oddjob}!anlams!ukma!sambo, or cbosgd!ukma!sambo "Micro-ln is great, if only people would start using it." Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com