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

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Glen

3 1/2 in floppies brand new for $7 US. 

Using 2HD disks on the Coco will be at half capacity so 100 floppies will  yield about 
72 MBytes of storage. Even if you can obtain the storage of 144 MBytes at your 
cost of $20 Canadian, you are at 13.6 cents per Mbyte. 

$15 US for a reader and $29US for a 256Mbyte card and I am at 17.2 cents per 
Mbytes for storage. That price will most likely drop another 3 or 4 cents per Mbyte in 
the next year. Besides one 256MByte card will hold more and take up far less room. 
Also the data trasfer is far superior in speed than that of floppies. The real 
disadvantage of CF cards is that most have a read/write lifetime of between 
100,000 and a 1,000,000 cycles. Floppies might exceed that. 

Flash cards are not the prohibitive any more. Heck even CD-R is more efficient than 
floppies. There is more than enough room to fit 100 floppies on one CD-RW. I have 
about 100 3 1/2 in floppies and boy do they take up space. 

james

On 1 Sep 2005 at 11:28, Glen VanDenBiggelaar wrote:

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> Mayby,
> But the price of compact flash just isn't there yet. I can pick up a
> brand new 3 1/4 drive for less then $10 Canadian and a box of 100
> floppies for the same. Compact flash still is way out of reach of that
> price range. Also, it doesn't have the same "feel" as using floppies.
> Maybe in 5 years, compact flash will be at the price point where its
> viable, but to me, its like using an emulator on the PC. it just does
> not have that "feel" of using the real thing. I am not looking forward
> to the USB. it will just be used for mostly mice and keyboards and
> reduntant stuff we already have. just go back and look through the
> threads "It will be easier to port this stuff over" is the main
> argument. -Glen