20 Oct
2007
20 Oct
'07
12:32 p.m.
e.stiebler wrote:
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
I've transcribed 8" and 5.25" disks for pay a few times. They do
sort of get beamed to my shelf overnight, and the client usually needs
them yesterday. While I don't mind taking the time it takes to do the
job, I don't want to do it at 19,200 b/s or even 215,000 if I can help it.
Doc
On Saturday 20 October 2007 13:00, e.stiebler
wrote:
> or read from a valuable floppy, I can wait a minute to transfer it
> via V24 which most computers have. (Please don't kill me for this
> "most").
Also, if you think that RS-232 is fast enough,
you haven't had a real
stack of hundreds of floppies that you needed to sort through and read.
And all those floppies got beamed to your shelf last night, or are they
sitting there for years ?
;-)
Not buying the speed issue ...