[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

2023-06-01 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
But, there is another problem. None of the auto makers still make "Station Wagon"s! On Thu, 1 Jun 2023, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: That's not true, Audi, Mercedes, Volvo all have wagons and I suppose one could consider the Subaru Outback to be one. Many SUVs remind me of light trucks.

[cctalk] Re: Station wagons (was: Re: Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.)

2023-06-01 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 6/1/23 16:43, Christian Kennedy via cctalk wrote: > > On 6/1/23 16:37, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote: >> I'm sorry but Audi does not make a lowly station wagon > > I don't know about that.  My wife's Q7 sure looks like a station wagon > to me. > Mike did say " lowly" station wagon. For that

[cctalk] Station wagons (was: Re: Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.)

2023-06-01 Thread Christian Kennedy via cctalk
On 6/1/23 16:37, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote: I'm sorry but Audi does not make a lowly station wagon I don't know about that.  My wife's Q7 sure looks like a station wagon to me. -- Christian Kennedy, Ph.D. ch...@mainecoon.com AF6AP | DB0692 | PG00029419 http://www.mainecoon.com

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

2023-06-01 Thread Mike Katz via cctalk
I'm sorry but Audi does not make a lowly station wagon They use to make the all road which is basically a cross over. And they have several models of Avant (fancy snooty name for station wagon). Audi has announced for 2025 the RS6 Avant Plug In Hybrid  (full specs haven't been released

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

2023-06-01 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 6/1/23 14:33, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > But, there is another problem. > > None of the auto makers still make "Station Wagon"s! > That's not true, Audi, Mercedes, Volvo all have wagons and I suppose one could consider the Subaru Outback to be one. Many SUVs remind me of light trucks.

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

2023-06-01 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
What is the bandwidth of a station wagon full of 1TB Mcro-SD cards hurtling down the highway? On 2023-06-01 2:40 p.m., Alexander Schreiber via cctalk wrote: $BIGNUM. But the latency is going to be orders of magnitude worse than the station wagon full of tapes, so there is that. Also, SD card

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

2023-06-01 Thread ben via cctalk
On 2023-06-01 2:40 p.m., Alexander Schreiber via cctalk wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 05:01:34PM -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: What is the bandwidth of a station wagon full of 1TB Mcro-SD cards hurtling down the highway? $BIGNUM. But the latency is going to be orders of magnitude

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

2023-06-01 Thread Alexander Schreiber via cctalk
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 05:01:34PM -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > What is the bandwidth of a station wagon full of 1TB Mcro-SD cards hurtling > down the highway? $BIGNUM. But the latency is going to be orders of magnitude worse than the station wagon full of tapes, so there is that. Also,

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

2023-06-01 Thread Alexander Schreiber via cctalk
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 04:26:56PM -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > > > I think I will just convert file sizes to lengths of paper tape for > > > > comparison: > > > > > > > > 1K            102.4" > > > > 10K      85' > > > > 100K        853' > > > > 1M           1.6 Miles > > > > 10M  

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

2023-06-01 Thread Mike Katz via cctalk
On 5/31/2023 10:03 PM, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 7:32 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: What is the bandwidth of a station wagon full of 1TB Mcro-SD cards hurtling down the highway? I suspect that a mobility scooter filled with a few thousand 1TB microSD cards