On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > If they ran DOS on a CF chip; they could pull out the chip DOS included > and send it it in. > Smaller than a flopppy and less easily damaged by magnets..
You just won't let that notion go. They would have to *have* DOS and the application software on a CF chip, and install a chip in each machine used. This has the expense of getting the chips, and the skilled labor involved in loading the image on the chips and equipping the machines to be used with the chips. Then you have the question for getting the data off the chip, because you *don't* want to have to open the machine and pull the chip to do it. This operation used ancient laptops available for next to nothing, with no hard drive and only a floppy. Floppies were dirt cheap, and it was quick and simple to duplicate as many copies of the program diskette and data diskette as needed. There were used for a 5 day period, because the convention runs from Thursday through Monday. Damage by magnet was not a concern, as the equipment was all used at a registration area set up in the convention center that all Worldcon attendees went to to pick up their badges and other con material (if they had pre-registered), or fill out a form and pay for a membership at the door. When registration was not operating, the laptops and floppies were in a storage area, And because each laptop had a data disk with its own copy of the registration database, there were multiple backups by the nature of the process. At the end of the convention, the final cpoy of the registration database was transferred to a server for conversion to other formats and archival storage. What you suggest would simply have been more trouble than it was worth. _____ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. www.restlet.com/download http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
