"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:00:18 -0400, wrote:



Radio Shack had a laptop with a solid state "drive" back in the
1980's. We issued them to reporters so they could write and file
stories from the field. Especially handy for Sports and covereage of
government meetings. The reporter would use an acoustic coupler on a
payphone to send the story to our ATEX mainframe at 300 baud.

Maybe this one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100_line

R/W memory - and the flash drives are a variant - has always been
expensive in large capacities - until now.
I really liked the IBM Rapid Resume deal, which was ahead of it's
time.
Mapped memory and video to the HD on shutdown, and just remapped back
on reboot. Very fast to get up and running.
Then I just got patient.

--Vic

Ya, if you're patient enough we'll eventually have quantum drives.