Re: USB Stick support of IIgs?

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-bm0-this>]

 To: Bill Buckels
Bill Buckels wrote:
> I can't imagine how a USB stick would improve on any of this except to be 
> doing what I am currently doing in a different way.

Well, maybe you have CF readers in your computers but there are a lot of 
people who don't.  I don't own a single CF card as I don't have a reader 
for one.  I do have six USB ports on my computer and pretty much 
everyone I know also has USB ports so I have several USB sticks that I 
can use to share data with them.  I also have an external USB enclosure 
with a 3.5" hard drive (currently only a 250 MB) in it that is great for 
sharing data.  I also have an MP3 player with 1 GB of internal storage 
and it currently has a 2 GB SD card in it as well but the only way I can 
access either of those bits of storage is through USB.

Having the ability to read and write USB sticks or other storage on my 
IIgs would be fantastic as I wouldn't need to do null modem transfers or 
use a SCSI card in my PC and have my magneto-optical drives hooked up to 
 my IIgs and PC and swap cartridges (which are fairly large, noisy and 
power hungry and limited to 300 MB at a time).