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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 17:08:46 +0000
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spork wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Robert Shady wrote:
> 
> > To make things better, I would say your best bet if you want to be sure,
> > would be to get one of those hard-cards, where you store everything in
> > NVRAM and it looks like a very fast hard drive to your computer system.
> 
> >       -- Rob
> 
> Do you have any more info on "hard cards"?  I've not heard of this, but it
> sounds like a perfect solution for routers/firewalls...
> 
> Charles

I hadn't thought of that either... :) I have seen ISA cards that did
this, but your best bet nowadays may be to buy a PCMCIA flash card and a
desktop PCMCIA adapter.. This allows much greater portability and you
could switch cards or add another card on the fly.  Those cards are a
tad expensive, though.  I got a 40MB typeIII PCMCIA hard drive for about
$20, though.