] A question raised by someone else was left in the air: what
] is the (estimated) transference rate of the device? I don't
] consider transfering files by disk a "cute" way of data
] interchange. Even if the transmission rate is not as high, the
] single fact that no mechanical medium is involved is already a
] gain (of course, if the difference is reasonable - we must
] remember that disk transference must be counted twice, once for
] writing and one more time for reading - I doesn't require any
] "Superman" to win this race, just a well done coding...)
To make it even worse for the disks, you should also take into account that
the theoretical transfer rate of 20 kB per second is hardly ever reached in
real life. As, when copying files to floppy, the system also has to update
the fat, the directory, move the disk heads, wait for the right sector to
rotate under the drive head, etc. etc. In reality, when copying files with
MSX-DOS to floppy disk, very often it takes up to 10 minutes to fill up a
double sided floppy. Which gives an effective transfer rate of only 1.2 kB
per second...
Kind regards,
Alex Wulms
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