m falling off the edges of my monitor as they once did. Getting to my point, I would definitely go no slower that one gigabyte SDRAM. It is superior to regular RAM is that it adds a separate clock signal to the control signals. SDRAM chips can contain more complex state machines, allowing them to support "burst" access modes that clock out a series of successive bits. Yet what I really would prefer in my memory selection would be an option for RDRAM. RDRAM is used mainly for video accelerators, and also in the Nintendo 64. It offers sustained transfer rates of around 1000 Mbps, compared to 200 Mbps for ordinary DRAM. I would think that as the bus speeds required by computers increase; RDRAM will become the primary form of memory. SDRAM can operate up to around 100MHz, but RDRAM has been demonstrated by the manufacturers running at 600MHz.Despite the infrequent use of my 3.5 inch floppy drive now, I would still install one as a failsafe to my intended 250 megabyte zip drive and CD burner. Although most computers will soon have little use for the small 1.44 megabyte capacity of floppies, it is still a universal medium that will always be able to hold a good amount of important documents, at an extremely low cost. Floppies can be purchased at pennies per disk, and this comes in handy for transferring documents or small program files when they cannot be emailed or transferred by other means. The drive itself only costs about $15, and with my preferred casing, I have six bays in which to put drives so a cheap floppy drive I suppose could find a within my dream computer. Another one of these bays would be filled with a much more practical zip drive. Although zip drives have not yet caught on as I hoped they would, the University at Buffalo has done a good job of installing them into most computers located on campus, making the transportation of large files and projects from home to school quite convenient. Only one company, Iomega,...
