[olug] from slashdot: Credit Card-Size Hard Drive Can Hold 5GB

[Daniel Pfile]

The first gen smart cards had major problems. We used them for supply 
tracking/id stuff in the air force (card + pin = $100k part and your 
butt if you lost it).

The big problem was they would seperate. After flexing a bit, the two 
layers of the card would come apart, and you'd expose the glued on 
microchip. I don't know if they really fixed it, or if they switched to 
a new kind of a glue. But it was a pain. You COULD still use the card 
though, just clamp it together with your fingers and shove it in the 
reader.

-- Daniel

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 10:09 AM, Jay Swackhamer wrote:

> It could go either way......
>
> that the moveable parts + flexibilty = junk.....
> or that they are no different than the 5.25inch floppy.......
>
> If they come out at the expected $15.00, I would expect them to be
> floppy-like, but I'd want to do/see some durability testing.........
> and since the readers are expected to be ~$100.00 I would expect to 
> have all
> of the sensitive parts in the readers.............
>
> Even with floppies/CD's i always make two copies, cause if you only 
> make
> one it'll never work.......
>
> but throwing away a few cents on cd's is nothing compared to $15.00
> everytime you sit down...............
>
> So to get the price down, everyone will have to go out and convince IT
> groups to buy large quantities of the first runs...............
>
>
>
>> I don't like the idea that it is a spinning disk.  I'm rough on credit
>> card sized devices.  Personnaly I would like to see a solid state type
>> device. Too much data on a volitile, portable format...not a great 
>> idea
>> to  me.  If someone gave it to me to play with, I could come up with
>> some  uses, but I wouldn't trust it in my wallet.
>>
>> --Glen
>
>
> -- 
> Jay Swackhamer
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