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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
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Posted: Sat Sep 14 22:10:44 1985
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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
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