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Re: Who still uses floppies these days?
Bible John wrote:
<BTW, if you have a PC Card (nee PCMCIA) slot on your older laptop
(and you probably do), you can add a PC Card-to-flash memory adapter
and get the benefits of a USB thumbdrive without the USB. (If you
choose a flash memory type that matches something else you use, it
will have multiple applications.)
-michael>
I do have a PCMCIA adaptor for using CF flash. But the CF disks are
expensive, and floppies are dog cheap.
Or is this not want you were talking about? All I know is that my laptop
cannot use USB flash drives, nor any other USB hardware that requires the
laptops power. So basicially I am stuck with floppies.
If you can read and write CompactFlash cards, and you have a similar
reader slot on your newer machine (many do, and any can add a USB reader
for just about *any* flash medium for <$10), then you can use a CF card
to move large gobs of data in either direction.
A 256MB CF Card is usually a little cheaper than a 256MB thumbdrive,
but they are always on special, so YMMV. They should be way under $20.
I was just pointing out that you don't need a USB port to get the
benefits of transportable flash storage.
But my older PC laptop laked USB period. If I wnated a CD burner I needed a
Parallel or serial one, and they are hard to find these days.
My Compaq reads and writes floppies fast. It must aheva higher end floppy
drive in it, as in 4 years I have had no more than 5 disks go south on me.
I have nothing against floppies--in fact I always configure my machines
with a floppy drive--but they have very limited capacity for today's
world. I couldn't even fit two .jpg photos on one!
Of course, your older machine probably isn't a very friendy environment
for 800KB .jpg files, either. ;-)
-michael
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