On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 12:08 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Uhm, I'd check the bulk prices of small flash drives (256meg); you might > find you can pick them up cheaply. >
2 minutes on ebay showed up lots of 10x64MB CF cards for $43 (i.e. $4.30 per card). I'd expect you could source bulk for less than that. Is that going to be too much? > A cute hack I saw recently (from telstra!) was to use a USB uC to pretend > to be a CDROM storage device to store a few hundred bytes of a pretend > ISO CDROM. This way autorun.inf was run, and IE was spawned. :) > > > > Adrian > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > I am looking for a cheap data storage solution for many people. The > > requirements are as follows: > > > > * CHEAP (very important) > > * storage space isn't important - maybe a couple of hundred kilobytes max. > > * media can be lost and replaced without much trouble/cost > > * media can be easily read/written by an ordinary Linux computer > > * media and media reader must be reasonably durable > > * scalable: the media should be distributable to millions of people > > > > Flash memory is too expensive - I'm looking for cards that cost <$1 > > each. I was thinking that SIM cards (like what you get in your phone) > > would fit the bill. Is it possible to use these as a generic storage > > medium? All the information I could find on USB SIM card readers > > mention that the SIM is accessed as a serial rather than a storage > > device. > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > -- > - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support > - > - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - -- Peter Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM Id & Yahoo Id: pjhacnau
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