On Monday 16 February 2004 08:41 am, nyal wrote: : Sorry folks, guess I'm a bit behind the times and kinda old school. I do : still have a floppy drive that I use with my Sony Mavica. Didn't realize : that floppies were as dead as the 5 1/4" disks of yesteryear (the really : floppy floppies). But the flippy-floppy (8") was the really floppy. Man... I remember when we upgraded from 8" floppy to 1 Meg hard disk.. that was sweet :)
I remeber purchassing my first floppy drive (floppy drives(non-linear) were much much nicer than thier alternateve (cassette tape drive, completely linear), the drive actually cost more than the computer, but was way worth it! That was a long time ago, and ive grown to hate floppys. They often like to disapoint me. I lost my crusty old digital camera, found a new one onsale, it uses CF cards, and I still have my CF adapter from the old camera. I found some 256MB cards at costco for $50 each, and together they hold almost a full cdrom of data, so I can take a buttload of pictures (1024 frames, or about 1/2 hour of video), and when not using the camera, I can use the cards to xfer data and stuff... one card holds almost 200 times more data, and is extreemly fast compared to floppy. One of these days, I'll work on booting the system from a 256mb card, hopefully by summer. Completely diskless laptop sounds pretty apealing :) : : I also forgot to mention that there is an ISO for *nix folks on the d/l : page but they're calling it a diskette image. : : Nyal : : > You have a floppy drive? : > : > Five years ago, Apple said that the floppy was dead technology and that : > people would be burning CDs instead, even for small files, because the : > CDs were cheaper than the floppies already. hmmm.. well, If infact anything like that was said, they may be right, but probably not for the reasons they state. I would say network(especially wireless) and ram based storage media (such as CF, mem stick, ...) technologies would both be major factors (if not more important). : > : > People laughed at Apple. Most new PCs today no longer feature floppy : > drives unless you add it as an extra feature--a feature which is steadily : > becoming more expensive and harder to find quality media in quantity. : > Amusing. =) yeah... My newest lappy has no floppy, you can get an external floppy for $50, but bleh.. i hate floppies. regarding people laughing at apple... I guess its just a conditioned reflex. : > : > _______________________________________________ : > EuG-LUG mailing list : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] : > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system. -- Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
