[Coco] Re: OS-9 as Replacement for DECB.

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Glen

As you have mentioned that at least 5 1/4 floppy drives are becoming rare, so are 
the controller chips. With the advent of hot swappable flash card under multiple 
names, storage of data and transfer of data between two computers is easier and 
more compact. 

Floppies will eventually give way to flash cards. Data rentention period  is about the 
same. 

As for the tape drives most of the older units are floppy based and are slow. The 
data has to be compressed to realize the starage capabilities of what is printed on 
them. These too are b ecoming dinosaurs.

james

On 31 Aug 2005 at 15:17, Glen VanDenBiggelaar wrote:

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> I have been throwing that idea around also Mark,
> We really need to get a new disk controller that will work with Modern
> floppies, but even that life span in sloly comming to an end. Most new
> pre-built computers don't even have a floppy drive any more. With the
> 5 1/4 drives becoming more and more rare, we all should get together
> and come up with a solution.
> 
> Just a thought occured to me the other day (Switching topics now).
> Nobody likes to use tape drives anymore, how viable would it be to use
> like a "colorado back up tape drive" to store all the old cassete
> programs. I know most people just put them on floppies now, but I was
> just trying to think of a way to use some older and abundant
> technology for use on the CoCo in a new way. Once I get ether the IDE
> controler or the superboard, I will be hooking up a zip drive and
> using that. -Glen