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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > > > i take it your camera doesnt have removable memory cards?
> > >
> > > I haven't got a camera at all.  But, if I do get one, it will
> > > use CF cards (because I recently got a PCMCIA CF adapter and
> > > have added the CF routine to BL3).
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Steven
> >
> > What would you do if you biked somewhere with your camera and took photos
> > that you wanted to share immediately, and nobody there had a laptop
> > computer?
>
> id show them the images on the convienient LCD screen built into the
> camera if i was in that much of a hurry....

That still would not give them a copy of the photos, which you would need 
to upload over your dialup line later.  (At 6MB/hour, with luck). 
Assuming they even had internet service.  We have several friends with 
computers and no internet connection (or they don't know how to download 
photos with it).

> > We have one desktop to which we added pcmcia controller and
> > slot.
> >
> > I made sure to get a camera (Olympus from 2000) that can transfer via
> > serial cable using PhotoPC (for linux or for DOS and it fits on a boot
> > disk. 60K file.  But trasnferring 50MB of photos (1280 res, 200-250K each)
> > took 6 hours so I got a USB card reader for Smartmedia cards and use
> > David's 1-floppy boot disk instead of biking around with a laptop computer
>
> why in such a hurry? buy a pocket PC if you just cant wait.... they
> have wifi and usb ports last i looked... take pics... stop infront of
> a starbucks and then email your pics wherever you want...

We don't buy computers, they are given to us.  Why spend money?  The 
people we visit on our bike trips live an hour or two from a wireless 
connection and often don't have email.  Or have free local email at 14.4K.

We have two PDAs, serial and USB, and can't find any use for them.

> polaroid also makes a camera that spits pictures out as soon as you
> take them....
Do they make a 3 oz scanner with built-in floppy drive to carry along?

> > in my backpack.  100 sec transfer.  Is PCMCIA any faster than USB?
>
> PCMCIA is as fast as the ISA bus.... it -is- the ISA bus... (8MB/sec)

50 MB in 6 seconds instead of 100 sec?
I don't think the hard drive can write that fast.
We will do an experiment some day.  We have one laptop computer with USB 
and PCMCIA and hard drive.

> > Sindi
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