21 Sep
2004
21 Sep
'04
3:41 a.m.
At 04:50 PM 9/20/2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
But USB sticks are getting cheap enough that they've become
promotional gimmick give-aways. I've never bought one, but now
I have several I got this way. Buy.com recently had 128M USB
for $11 with a $10 rebate, so $1 AR: see http://www.slickdeals.net/ .
I'm with you, though - I tend to use a floppy or burn a CD-R because I
know they'll work and I don't need to think twice about whether there's
an available USB port and whether that computer's OS handles it.
Hmm. Come to think of it, does anyone make a CompactFlash
to USB adapter that would let us use all these cheap CF cards
as USB disks?
- John
Compared to a
USB memory stick? Unless I want to keep or do repeated
transafers over time, I have lamost stopped using CD-R's completely.
I don't invest in any of that fancy new-fangled equipment. I use whatever
I already have or what's given to me. That usually means stuff that's 3-7
generations behind whatever is current today.