8 Nov
2005
8 Nov
'05
10:23 a.m.
At 10:12 AM 11/8/05 -0500, you wrote:
Joe R. wrote:
I have one too but it's not CD-R or CD-RW. FWIW I've been lucky enough
to find several HP-IB drives that use Bernoulli disks, MO disks and other
rewriteable media. :-)
Joe
At 10:45 PM 11/6/05 +0000, you wrote:
Hmmm. I have a couple of HP-IB MO drives and a HP-IL to HP-IB converter.
I wonder???
Also, I know for a fact that there are HP-IB CD-ROM drives because I
have one. I've
noticed that what passes for 3.5" blank media nowadays is downright
This is a common moan here. I've noticed it too -- as I am fond of
pointing out, about 20 years ago I bought some 5.25" disks for my TRS-80
model 1. THose disks cost me (then) \pounds 3.00 each, and my Model 1
stored 88K on them (single sided, 35 cylinders, single density).
Thing is, those disks are still readable. I wish I could pay that sort of
price _now_ for a 3.5" disk and get something that I could read back
again in <n> years time. My data is worth a lot more than that.
(Oh and don't tell me to use CD-Rs or DVDs, or whatever. I've yet to find
such devives with an HPIL interface (for example)).
Peace... Sridhar