29 Dec
2012
29 Dec
'12
2:56 p.m.
>> No argument there. Plus you don't even
have to be on the same continent
>> as the drive you're reading!
>Maybe I'm just too far out of date, but I don't understand the
>advantages of that feature.
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, John Wilson wrote:
You must be expecting a *practical* advantage! :-)
It's kind of like how Massbus is (if I remember right) specified to be up
to 75' long. That seems like overkill until you try to get a TU77 up a
flight of stairs! It's not that you *would* just leave it in the truck
and use it there, but it's awesome that you *could*.
THAT could be useful.
Even internet access to my thermostat might be handy, although I'd
have a hard time not worrying about errors, or unauthorized resetting.
But, to put the disk drive elsewhere, then I would also need a
remotely accessible robot arm to take the disk out of the package
and put it into the drive.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com