50g

--- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, Nancy Von Essen <ceeshellmom@...> wrote:
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> Ed Von Essen here.  Richard, the HP 49G+ with the original operating
system got messed up when I tried a 1 Gig SD card.  Had to reset it. 
It was happy with a 64 Meg card.  And the 49G+ came up with a "disk
full" error (file name table full) and there were still 55 Meg left on
the SD card.  I was storing data on the SD card only.  The 50G will
handle a larger SD card but will it handle more file names?  I
remember someone saying that file names were read in when one selected
FILES.  Well the answer to this problem is to write a file gathering
program, in other words, stuff more data in a file.  Of course, that
means it's necessary to write a program to be able to retrieve the
data you want, also.  I was plotting investment data to see trends and
the disk full error occurred after two years. 
>   So figure out what you want to store and get the smallest SD
(lowest cost) card for the job.  And buy several as you go along. 
Using SD cards for specific purposes is recommended.
... 
>   Enjoy your 50G.  It's a great machine and will keep you busy for
hours.  MC&HNY.  Ed


On the 49G+ the max size SD card was 128mb. On both 49G+ and 50G the
max number of files is 512. I'm using a 1G SanDisk Ultra II (it was on
sale) and it works just fine in my 50G. Also, recommended is the
program SDfiler (for more options than the built-in Filer):
http://www.hpcalc.org/search.php?query=sdfiler
I like your idea about several different cards, but knowing me, they'd
be lost within six weeks. Will have to settle for one card that stays
in the calc and use subdirectories.

Arthur