> Indeed. The industry seems to have decided that the floppy is a dead > media -- that's fine, as they do suck, but I wish the industry would
Well they are convenient but offer so limited storage as to not be all that useful anymore. And zip / ls-120 aren't as common and nowhere near standard equipment. Media cost is also very expensive. CDRW seems to be more ubiquitous, but then there are reliability problems and it's harder to send files to the CD (you can't just mount and copy files). These days, hard disks are so inexpensive (in many cases a small HD is cheaper than zip disks) that one would think that HD would be transportable. Dunno about how reliable a HD is that is carried around from place to place, but if you can get one for $79 these days that's 20 gigs or more, maybe that's a direction to pursue. It would be easier if there were hotplug like connectors so you don't have to open the machine up. I've seen them used though. > CD-R: Write once and it's gone. > CD-RW: Write a few times, but each write needs to be done in a different tape? it does have a tape mechanism and is fairly transportable, that is, if the target machine has a compatible tape drive, which would not be all that common on PCs. It's still very common in other arenas. On some older machines, you could even boot from a tape. > Jack Coates
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