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Re: I wonder if it would be complicated to design...



Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 May 2013, ivan@ivanexpert.com wrote:
> 
>> On Thursday, May 9, 2013 11:12:26 AM UTC-4, Steve Nickolas wrote:
>>> On Thu, 9 May 2013, Jonno Downes wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Just curious why you would target PC-formatted drives rather than say a CF card?
>>> 
>>>> as in http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/main.php
>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Because CFs are too high-capacity for me.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -uso.
>> 
>> I often find excessive capacity an annoyance myself, which is why I like 13-sector disks.
>> 
> 
> ...lol.
> 
> No, seriously - finding really small CFs is prolly next to impossible and
> using an OS that has a 32 MB limit on multigig flashes is...a horrible
> waste, not?  1.44 MB is certainly bigger than 140 KB - but it's not extremely large.
> 
> -uso.

Time marches on...  Don't be concerned about wasted flash memory, only
wasted time and money. ;-)

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon