In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Gilpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>According to my calculations and assuming a modest 210 sectors on a >microdrive it works out at nearly 4 million microdrives. That's even more >than Quanta has in stock for resale!! > >Regards to all, > >John Gilpin. Wow ! ... I guess the technology moves on ... :-) Imagine cataloguing 4 million microdrives ... :-( Although Sinclair Research was involved in Wafer Scale Integration too, if I remember correctly. Which was promising things like very large storage of data. Whatever became of that promise for the future ? >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Malcolm Cadman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:32 PM >Subject: Re: [ql-users] new hard disk > > >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >>Last week I was pestering you all with questions about formatting a >>new Hitachi Deskstar 250GB hard disk I was having problems with. >> >>I sent it back, the company quickly sent me a replacement and it >>worked first time when set up today, exactly how all the helpful >>replies suggested it ought to. >> >>Thank you all, I've given Windoze 40GB to do with as it pleases (since >>the second hard drive has enough space to do a full backup of the C: >>drive), and the other 200GB partition will hold my music and QL files. >> >>Hopefully Windoze will do less damage to it than the couriers did! >> >>Incidentally, my first impressions of this hard disk are excellent. >>About £45 including VAT and carriage for the 250GB IDE133 T7K250, and >>it's pretty fast and quiet. >> >>Thank you everyone for your kind help. > >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 ? -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
