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

[charlesb at otcgaming.net]

if it can support a 32x cdreader, it can support a burner. yes it'll be slow 
at 1x, 2x but then speed dont matter when u want the data on the disk right? 
:D

as for bbc's there is a project that works (by all accounts) that allows you 
to use flash cards as mass storage, there's also a BBC/IDE interface in the 
works too.

regards
charles
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 1:01 AM
Subject: Re: Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past 
(fwd)


>>
>> On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>>
>> > Gee, neither of the last two new computers that I purchased had
>> > floppy drives (and one of those is about 5 years old now).  I'd say
>> > this is old news (and the PC world finally catching up with the rest
>> > of us).  I can't even remember the last time I used a floppy drive.
>
> I am wondering what removeable mass storage you have on your classics...
>
>>
>> I still use them all the time.  It's still the quickest and easiest way 
>> to
>> transfer files (that can fit on them of course).
>
> So do I. You can't get CD-ROM burners for PERQs, HP71s, BBC Micros,
> PDP11/45s, and so on. In fact I doubt if my PC would support a CD burner
> either (I am sure the data rate of the burner would be far too fast for
> my machine...)
>
> -tony
>
>


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