phillip,

i've done a lot of reading on the memory stick since my last posting. technical specification are only available to members of their standards association and i haven't checked to see if it requires a corporate membership fee out of my league.

i have peeked around a few forbidden corners though. :)

the memory sticks are specified thermally as operating from 0 to 60 degrees celsius. (everything i work on requires -40 to +85)

however, they could be useful as in that realm for data collection as a human generally won't collect data until the temperatures are human friendly. :)

so even though it couldn't be resident for storing telemetry for later collection, it could be used as a media for transferal.

its more attractive for "special projects" with more relaxed thermal ranges. one thing that i like about them is the possibility to use them for secure flash microcontroller firmware upgrades. its much easier to mail a memory stick to a client and tell them to "stick it" in a slot and await a transfer complete message. we currently use palm ir communications for field upgrades and its less desirable because you have to instruct the client on loading the file into his palm and then how to beam it into the unit. (that is still easier than previous methods)

memory sticks would be simpler.


duh