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
