Yes this has been hashed over many times....gnatbox users wanting the ability to put their own flash card in and boot off it instead of the floppy like the gb-100. Perhaps GTA can have a feature add on to the GBPRO for a small amount of money that allows you to use the flash card.
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:50:51 -0500, you wrote: >--------------------- Attention ----------------------------- >Online GNAT Box User Forum is Now Open >Click the Register link and sign up today >http://www.gnatbox.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi >------------------------------------------------------------- >Send postings to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Access the list archives at: http://www.gnatbox.com/gb-users/ >------------------------------------------------------------- >There are tons of flash solutions that would work for Gnatbox. GTA even has >developed support for one, which they use in the GB-100. Why don't they >release it to non-GB100 users? Simple, why sell one product when you can >sell two. > > >At 01:58 PM 7/13/2000 -0500, you wrote: >>--------------------- Attention ----------------------------- >>Online GNAT Box User Forum is Now Open >>Click the Register link and sign up today >>http://www.gnatbox.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi >>------------------------------------------------------------- >>Send postings to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Access the list archives at: http://www.gnatbox.com/gb-users/ >>------------------------------------------------------------- >>Could this work for a GNAT box? >> >>Look at http://www.tapr.org/tapr/html/Fcfa.html for >> >>Summary >>An interface board has been developed which allows a CompactFlashTM card to >>be used as a boot device on a PC. It takes advantage of a feature of the >>CompactFlashTM Card that allows it to emulate an IDE hard disk drive. >> >> The price is: >>$49.00 US for members of TAPR >>or >>$59.00 US for non-members >> >>plus shipping and handling (see below). >>and will include: >> >>TAPR Compact Flash Adapter >>Documentation >> >> >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Nick Holland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 11:37 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: no floppies? >> >> >>--------------------- Attention ----------------------------- >>Online GNAT Box User Forum is Now Open >>Click the Register link and sign up today >>http://www.gnatbox.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi >>------------------------------------------------------------- >>Send postings to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Access the list archives at: http://www.gnatbox.com/gb-users/ >>------------------------------------------------------------- >>Michael Little wrote: >> > I dont know about the rest of you but this list has turned into a soap box >> > for 'computer experts'. Why does a simple question have to turn into a >> > reason for everyone to share their vast knowledge of computers. >> >>Very simple. Because we enjoy it. >> >>We "computer experts" are not paid money to assist you by GTA or by >>you directly. Several of us I know provide free advice here, directly >>competing with our own businesses, answering questions for FREE when >>we could be charging you through the nose for it, spending time we >>could be working with paying customers. I have also seen evidence >>that many of the GTA employees who participate here are ALSO doing so >>on their own free time (or they work some VERY strange hours and >>days), and again, THEY are ALSO competing with their own >>support-for-fee business (and this, by the way, indicates a measure of >>belief in their product which is rare in any industry at the moment, >>and by itself is evidence of the quality of product GB is -- that >>their employees believe in it enough to devote their off-work time to >>it, as well). >> >>We do not owe you a thing. You have no right to claim our knowledge >>without compensation. Any attempt to take my knowledge (=work =labor) >>against my will, I shall deal with it as I would any other form of >>robber or looter. I expect compensation for the spreading of >>knowledge I have worked very hard to accumulate. >> >>Even if the rewards are not monetary, they must exist in some other >>way. That is the way it works. If there are no rewards, I (and I >>would guess others) pack up and go elsewhere. >> >>The rewards and compensation are that we enjoy helping people. We >>appreciate and enjoy the on-and-off list notes of thanks and >>appreciation, the feedback that we have provided useful assistance. >>We enjoy the mind stretching discussion. We enjoy bouncing ideas off >>each other. We enjoy teaching others. We enjoy LEARNING from others >>who know things we do not. This is the way intelligent people are -- >>I know enough intelegent people, I feel very safe in using the 'we' to >>refer to more than just myself. I have found ample compensation in >>the GNATbox mail list and other lists I participate in, and thus, I am >>very glad to participate, and I have reason to believe others >>appreciate my contribution and the contribution of other "experts". >> >>If you do not like this, the Internet is a very big place, you are >>very free to start your own list of computer non-experts, safe from >>those who have knowledge and experience, or putting whatever "experts" >>come your way under whatever leash you can get them to wear, for >>whatever compensation you can get them to accept. >> >> >> >I personally >> > don't give a rats ass what you all THINK about floppy drives. The guy had >>a >> > simple question that deserved a simple answer. >> >>It was a simple question, perhaps. Simple questions do not imply >>simple answers. Just as the classic "have you stopped beating your >>wife?" simple question has no simple "yes/no" answer, very often a >>question, such as the one which started this thread, has meaning far >>beyond what the asker thought. We have addressed some of the points >>we could have addressed. We got (slightly) sidetracked. And we >>enjoyed it. Debt paid. >> >> > I don't care what you think about keyboards, floppies, etc. Have some >> > consideration for the other people on this list who don't appreciate your >> > time wasting junk mail. >> >>You are free to delete my E-mail or that of anyone else without >>reading it (as are we) -- I believe there are even mail client >>packages which will do that for you automatically. You are free to >>ignore any threads which have run their course of utility in your >>mind. We don't babble on about things to torment you, that is not how >>we (or at least I) get our compensation. But we enjoy our >>compensation. >> >>And, if the observation that people are more likely to write in >>complaint than in praise is correct, I think I would have to say that >>other people are enjoying and appreciating our compensation, too. >> >>Who is John Galt? >> >> >>Nick. >> >>-- >>http://www.holland-consulting.com/ >>---------------------------------------------- >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>with "unsubscribe gb-users your_email_address >>in the body of the message >>---------------------------------------------- >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>with "unsubscribe gb-users your_email_address >>in the body of the message > >---------------------------------------------- >To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with "unsubscribe gb-users your_email_address >in the body of the message
