Quoting Michael Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I guess floppies aren't all that important in a world of the > internet, but they're still valuable in the form of boot disks, and small > transfers to zero-connectivity machines. Floppies are the only format not > keeping pace it would seem. They've been 1.4M for how long now, while > harddrives go from 500M -> 13Gig standard?
There's no point: they're a legacy system. And they *did* raise the capacity to 2.88MB, but I guess their sales proved that it's a wasted effort for such a small gain. OTOH you could argue that superfloppies have pushed their capacity to 120MB: that's a bigger factor than 0.5 to 13. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
