Re: Waaay Offtopic - Mobile Phones

Steve McKenzie wrote:

> You may recall I asked about PDAs some months back. Well I bought one
> and it works well. Problem is it has flash memory, and I am a little
> irregular about remembering to charge it up. After spending 2 weeks
> in the bush (sorting out pipe routes, Paul), I found I had lost the
> lot by the time I returned to civilisation. As of yet, nobody seems
> to have thought of pinching the hard drive out of an iPod and putting
> it in a PDA.

I'm assuming that you mean that you lost the whole PDA and therefore all the data, as I was unaware that data cards lose their memory if left to discharge. This is supposed to be solid state memory, the kind used in digital cameras.

Or are you saying that your PDA did not have removeable memory cards and was basically a RAM-based device?

If it were possible, I'd recommend emailing collected data ASAP to two different places (this is where GMail is nice if you don't have your own domain).

Paul Received on Wed Nov 10 20:10:00 2004