I got an idea while driving home tonight (industrial music blasting away, unwinding from a hectic day, can you relate?) How hard would it be to make a wearable computer with a Ton-O-RAM (tm) on it, and make a CD-Rom as a hard drive? Of course you would have to use some of the ram for a swap file, and for what ever you happen to be running/editing/modifying at the moment. But my point is this: CD-Roms are cheaper (and more durable?) than hard drives. And applications can run from a CD. CDs hold a nice 640M of data, so, disk space wouldnt be a real problem. CD-Rom drives would probably require less energy to run as well. Oh, and what about saving data? Well, unless your CD happens to be a burner (and you might as well get a hard drive at that point) your only options would be either battery-backed ram, or eeprom. Ultimately, you would download the data from the wearable to a base computer via serial port/modem/i.r. link etc. Could Linux be made to operate in this fashion? Any positve/negative feedback welcomed, Mike :)+< -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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