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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (49011)7/25/2001 6:10:44 PM
From: ptannerRespond to of 275872
 
Tenchusatsu, Re: "Speaking of which, I'm wondering why we still bother with 3.5" floppy drives."

Well, both hardware costs are probably comparable but the minimum media costs (ie. for distribution of drivers) are not. However, I suppose those network card drivers (etc) could come on a CD instead of a floppy. I just realized the other day that I don't think I have ever used the FDD in the first computer I built (6 mos old) and never even installed one in the second computer. A flash card reader would offer much greater speed and capacity... but they don't have the "universal" availability for small file transfers to those remaining folks I can't send files to by e-mail.

-PT



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (49011)7/25/2001 6:18:55 PM
From: PetzRespond to of 275872
 
Tench, I've suggested that Flash could be used to implement the "suspend to RAM" function on most systems.
No power need be maintained and there's the possibility of saving the context of more than one session if the flash is big enough. (Although disk file changes could be a problem.)

I assume laptops now save context to disk, but if power is really low, that could fail.

Petz



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (49011)7/25/2001 7:09:47 PM
From: combjellyRespond to of 275872
 
" Some PC manufacturer should take the bold step and replace them with flash card readers."

MMC's could potentially be very cheap. The packaging cannot cost very much and if they can get decent capacity for under $5 retail, it could soak up a lot of flash bits.

I don't even bother putting floppies in machines anymore. I have a drive that I can put in a system when needed, and I haven't needed to do that for going on 2 years now.


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