10 Dec
2003
10 Dec
'03
5:59 a.m.
So they are available for more than just the Mac. I
think the one I
bought for my father's iMac (so he can transfer pics from his Mavica
camera) was not Mac specific and was supported by Windows and Linux
according to the box (but the drive sucks, its PAINFULLY slow to copy
data, far slower than the USB bus so the speed isn't killed by that...
IIRC, its a "SanDisk" brand drive, but I could be wrong).
Using *ANY* floppy on a PowerMac is painfully slow. When I was getting ready to move from
my 8500/180 to my G4/450 AGP I wanted to image a large number of floppies that I had. I
ended up doing the imaging on my PowerBook 540c, transfering them via ethernet to the 8500
and burning them to CD. That was a *LOT* faster than doing the reading directly on the
8500.
Worse, some of these USB floppies need to be connected directly to the system, rather than
hooking them into a Hub. Both my Mom and a friend of mine have drives like this.
Zane
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