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HP-48 FRAM Cards
07-16-2016, 04:39 PM
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RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards
(07-16-2016 04:21 AM)JDW Wrote:  
(07-16-2016 04:15 AM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  The only caveat is that it can't be erased by removing a battery.
But is that really a "negative"? :-)
In my book, this would be a very big plus, even more so for the larger cards.

I once lost a lot of stuff stored in my (no-name) 2 MB SRAM card, when I didn't use the 48GX for a while (after switching to the 50g). For some odd reasons they designed in a tiny CR1216 cell, although there would have been enough room for a CR2320. #-| The CR1216 needs to be replaced more than once a year - really annoying.

Not much of an issue for my (Epson OEM) 128 KB SRAM card, as its CR2016 cell lasts for many ages.

Regarding FRAM, given that FRAM still has a limited (though high) number of write-erase cycles, I would not consider it perfect as RAM extension (in a device where the built-in RAM is battery powered, anyway), but it certainly sounds great for cards used for data storage.

Greetings,

Matthias


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HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 07-16-2016, 02:59 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Dave Frederickson - 07-16-2016, 04:15 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 07-16-2016, 04:21 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - matthiaspaul - 07-16-2016 04:39 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Dave Frederickson - 07-16-2016, 09:18 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Michael Lopez - 07-16-2016, 07:07 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - cruff - 07-16-2016, 12:20 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 07-16-2016, 12:24 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 07-17-2016, 09:23 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - snrowe - 07-23-2016, 12:03 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 07-23-2016, 12:19 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - snrowe - 07-23-2016, 12:51 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 07-23-2016, 12:58 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - snrowe - 07-23-2016, 01:04 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Dave Frederickson - 07-23-2016, 01:40 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - snrowe - 07-23-2016, 02:37 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Sylvain Cote - 07-23-2016, 02:45 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - matthiaspaul - 07-23-2016, 05:10 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 07-23-2016, 10:56 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - matthiaspaul - 07-24-2016, 02:28 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Dave Frederickson - 07-24-2016, 04:29 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - matthiaspaul - 07-24-2016, 06:52 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Dave Frederickson - 07-23-2016, 12:46 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - snrowe - 07-23-2016, 01:00 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Dave Frederickson - 07-23-2016, 01:22 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - snrowe - 07-23-2016, 01:35 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 07-23-2016, 02:01 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 07-23-2016, 02:57 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - snrowe - 07-23-2016, 03:14 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 07-23-2016, 03:50 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Dave Frederickson - 07-23-2016, 03:53 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 08-10-2016, 01:54 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - matthiaspaul - 08-17-2016, 09:38 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 08-16-2016, 01:56 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - matthiaspaul - 08-18-2016, 09:56 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 08-19-2016, 12:06 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Dave Frederickson - 08-19-2016, 12:20 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 08-19-2016, 12:32 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Dave Frederickson - 08-19-2016, 02:15 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - matthiaspaul - 08-20-2016, 11:52 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Ron Ross - 08-16-2016, 01:04 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 08-16-2016, 01:27 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Ron Ross - 08-16-2016, 04:14 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 08-16-2016, 11:43 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 08-19-2016, 02:21 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 08-21-2016, 11:44 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Han - 08-22-2016, 04:10 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - matthiaspaul - 08-22-2016, 07:32 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - gege - 08-25-2016, 03:19 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - matthiaspaul - 08-25-2016, 07:38 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 08-25-2016, 11:52 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Ron Ross - 08-26-2016, 04:13 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - matthiaspaul - 08-27-2016, 11:32 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 08-27-2016, 12:21 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - gege - 08-27-2016, 09:36 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 08-29-2016, 12:21 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - gege - 08-29-2016, 05:32 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 08-29-2016, 05:35 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - gege - 08-29-2016, 05:36 AM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Han - 03-23-2017, 02:45 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Hans Brueggemann - 03-23-2017, 06:44 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Chris Dreher - 03-23-2017, 04:06 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - EugeneNine - 03-23-2017, 04:58 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - JDW - 03-23-2017, 11:54 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - EugeneNine - 03-24-2017, 12:11 PM
RE: HP-48 FRAM Cards - Gary Cray - 07-16-2017, 06:47 PM



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