21 Sep
2004
21 Sep
'04
5:42 a.m.
Lots of 'em out there, John- not very expensive either.
I carry a 512 CF card with me all the time in my wallet with useful
stuff on it-A PCMCIA slot adaptor does sometimes go in with it. Not
found a USB reader small enuff to go in there with it yet but I bet
one will turn up soon.
DaveB
NZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Foust" <jfoust(a)threedee.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 8:41 PM
Subject: RE: Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the
Past (fwd)
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.