David Moyer <meetme@world.com> wrote in news:meetme-5790EE.15120309062008
@news.qwest.net:

> no futzing around like people used to do with memory cards, those days
> are long gone.
>
> do you even have a cell phone?
>
>

Yes, but it only has a 4GB microSD in it, a MotoROKR Z6m. It's just a
bluetooth modem with an MP3 player in it...(c;

I use an array of memory cards for the N800 Linux tablet. I have some
old 8GB cards full of music and ebooks and the 16GB external card is for
Divx movies off alt.binaries.movies.divx. (I'm enjoying the flood of old
Westerns that someone posted at the moment.)

I don't change out the internal 16GB card. It's for storage of Maemo
Mapper's mosaic panels from Google, Virtual Earth, Runway Finder
(aeronautical charts), etc.; a couple hundred Palm OS apps that run under
Garnet Virtual Machine, the new Palm OS people; 256MB of extra virtual
memory expanding the internal fixed memory; lots of data and library
files the installed software uses.....sorta like C:\Programs on a WinXP
box....and a few movies I like to keep on the tablet as there's lots of
space left unused.

I can't imagine being stuck with ANY device I wouldn't have removeable
storage of some kind available. I need to have unlimited storage that
swappable storage provides.

Now, the smartassed Linux hackers have a little app that puts our USB
port into OTG and HOST mode, as well as the defaulted Peripheral mode it
uses to restore the OS. Memory just went way up as I can plug in one of
my massive 500/750GB or 1TB external USB hard drives! I can just move
the hard drive from the PC to the tablet and let the tablet copy stuff
off the hard drive straight onto its memory cards or the other way,
without using Bluetooth FTP or over the wifi, which is much slower. And,
doing that doesn't upset whatever the XP box is downloading by having to
cope with copying onto the memory cards plugged into the PC via a USB
adapter.

The tablet, of course, won't POWER the external hard drives, so you have
to have them plugged into an AC adapter or a car cord if you want to
carry it with you....(c;