Tom Lee Mullins wrote:

>--- In os2hardware{at}yahoogroups.com, andrew{at}c... wrote:
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>>>This
>>>complete computer could be no larger than 
>>>a VHS cassette, or just built
>>>into the keyboard. (I'll accept royalty 
>>>payments for the ideas) :-) Oh
>>>yeah, the flash cards would be about 
>>>$59 and really fast.
>>>      
>>>
>>Too late, allready been done....
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>IIRC - they are called 'brick' computers because
>they were about the size of one(?).
>
>BigWarpGuy
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>

Hi TomLee,

Actually about 15-17 years back, the original micro-sized PC was 
marketed as "The Brick", I remember seeing the advertisements in my 
subscription copies of Byte Magazine. 

Around the same time maybe a little earlier I got interested in 
programming Intel's [Magnetic] Bubble Memory -which unfortunately was 
relatively slow, in relation to DRAM [dynamic] and especially the very 
much faster still Static RAM, that retained memory without any power 
applied, which I guess is what eventually developed into flash memory, 
as the same property applies there.

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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