At 11:44 AM 1/18/02 -0800, Kenneth Hadley wrote: [...] >I totally understand and agree with most of what you have said, but when I >look at new CDROM drives going for the same price tag of a new 1.44MB Floppy >Drive it seams a more than a little funny that a old floppy drive is a more >important media target for a project than something that is a lot more >reliable and allows the project to do so much more.
Where do you look? *New* CD-ROM drives are pretty cheap ... $US30 in today's ads around here ... but not as cheap as *new* floppy drives ($US10, same ad) by a lot. Do you know better sources for new equipment? Anyway, unless you make a custom CD, you need a CD -AND- a floppy, not a CD -OR- a floppy. The other issue for the home user working with CDs is that he or she needs a burner, and they are more expensive ($US50 locally today), require a separate system to run them, and are more finicky than even 1680 floppy drives and disks. I'm moving away from this low-end equipment myself, but I still think we'll lose a lot of user interest if floppy-only systems become impractical. -- ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
