Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past (fwd)

[John Foust]

At 04:50 PM 9/20/2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>> Compared to a USB memory stick? Unless I want to keep or do repeated
>> transafers over time, I have lamost stopped using CD-R's completely.
>
>I don't invest in any of that fancy new-fangled equipment.  I use whatever
>I already have or what's given to me.  That usually means stuff that's 3-7
>generations behind whatever is current today. 

But USB sticks are getting cheap enough that they've become
promotional gimmick give-aways.  I've never bought one, but now
I have several I got this way.  Buy.com recently had 128M USB
for $11 with a $10 rebate, so $1 AR: see http://www.slickdeals.net/ .

I'm with you, though - I tend to use a floppy or burn a CD-R because I 
know they'll work and I don't need to think twice about whether there's 
an available USB port and whether that computer's OS handles it.

Hmm.  Come to think of it, does anyone make a CompactFlash
to USB adapter that would let us use all these cheap CF cards
as USB disks?

- John