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

[Dave Brown]

Lots of 'em out there, John- not very expensive either.
I carry a 512 CF card with me all the time in my wallet with useful 
stuff on it-A PCMCIA slot adaptor does sometimes go in with it. Not 
found a USB reader small enuff to go in there with it yet but I bet 
one will turn up soon.
DaveB
NZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Foust" <jfoust at threedee.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 8:41 PM
Subject: RE: Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the 
Past (fwd)


> 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
>
>