Re: What takes the place of the floppy drive?
- From: "JAD" <kapasitor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:05:20 -0800
"spoon2001" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Is anything going to take the place of the floppy drive?puts
- cheap media, don't care if you give it away and don't get it back
- bootable
- suitable for software distribution
- easy read/write of individual files, built-in OS support, without a need
for proprietary packet writing software
- readable by system BIOS, no special drivers required
BUT -
- much higher speed and capacity than the floppy disk
I have read that Vista will support the MRW (Mt. Rainier) format, which
defect management into the CD/DVD hardware, and makes CDs/DVDs usable as
floppies. But I am not seeing MRW support being built into CD/DVD burners
even though the specification has been out for years. (It would be
interesting to see CD/DVD drive in a 3.5" format, like a floppy, but I
haven't seen that.)
One alternative I guess is the USB thumb drive. But I don't see them
getting cheap enough to pass hand-to-hand like floppies, or for use for
software distribution.
Another alternative is just email and internet.
I have been using CD ROMs instead of floppies for awhile now......... and
use 'multisession' to reuse them. All my systems here use the ROM for
booting if necessary, no Floppy drive installed (sorry Taiwan). Copied and
burned 'emulation' of a Windows startup disk to a CD and use that for
windows 9x prompt boot. Also using CD's with MY hard drive disk utilities
and AV software, to have a bootable anti virus disk. CD's do come in a 3.5
size (although not incased in a jacket like a floppy). Use them quite
regularly as business cards and data transfer. AFA price well CDs are quite
cheap now, in fact cheaper than floppies were back in the day, at 10x the
storage capacity.
.
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