[A83] Re: Stupid Idea?

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Subject: [A83] Re: Stupid Idea?
From: "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 17:24:50 -0600
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Ronald Teune writes:
> Why not use a floppy drive?
> Easy to carry medium, 2 MB (well, that's max) on one floppy, and if
> you use fat (at the expense of 560 KB) you can even use the floppy in
> your PC!

Floppies are slow and unreliable.  They require a lot of power compared to a
memory chip.  Physically, they are large, clunky and heavy.  They require a
lot of circuitry to be usable.

The floppy drive idea is horrible.

--
David Phillips <david@acz.org>
http://david.acz.org/

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