>> Yes, I am toying with getting a 400GB hard drive ... I guess we >> just = >> can't get enough of it ... :-) >> >> I wonder how many QL microdrives that is the equivalent of ? > > Using 400 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes and dividing by 110 * 1024 > bytes we get a grand total of 3,813,003.6363 (recurring) microdrive > cartridges. > > Is that enough ? I guess we'll see Malcolm back here in about 10 years - after he's finished backing up his 400GB hard disk to microdrive ;-)
And I'd like to know the whereabouts of his warehouse to hold all those cartridges. Or does he just have several garden sheds like Tony Firshman. Though my experience of things suggests that if left in a cupboard for 10 years, the microdrives may well prove to be more readable than the hard disk or floppy disk or CD or DVD! Most of the microdrives I still have are perfectly readable. Many of the floppy disks from that period ain't - sadly, including disks with sources to old programs like Page Designer 2. -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
