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RE: HDD-less wearable/CD-Rom for a HDD?

Check out OROM from Ioptics (http://www.ioptics.com)
<http://www.ioptics.com)> .  They don't have a product released yet, but
(from their web site)...
" Ioptics has developed a revolutionary approach to optical data storage
called OROM (Optical Read Only Memory). The technology will provide a
low-cost means for distributing software, reference data, multimedia content
and entertainment used in compact portable computers, embedded systems and
portable consumer electronic devices. OROM consists of a removable media
called a data card and an innovative electro-optical reader. The compact,
low-cost plastic data card is smaller than a business card. The reader is
small enough to fit in a shirt pocket or to be built into portable systems.
It uses no moving parts, providing rugged skip-free data retrieval and
extremely low power consumption. Data access times are expected to be 10
times better than CD-ROMs and equivalent to hard disk drives. "

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Michael Sharp [mailto:]
		Sent:	Tuesday, November 03, 1998 3:13 PM
		To:	
		Subject:	HDD-less wearable/CD-Rom for a HDD?

		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 :)+<

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