The keyring thingys are getting cheaper all the time..... They made 8Mb
ones as the smallest when I got mine about a year ago, but now 32Mb seems
to be the smallest as the prices have come down so much that an 8Mb one is
no longer viable. A 32Mb one costs about the same as a similar sized CF
card. Most of the online PC shops do them, like jungle.com or dabs.com or
even amazon.
The beauty of the small file sizes in the QL world (as compared to the PC
bloatware files) means you can fit a VAST amount of stuff in 32Mb or
64Mb...... I have a fully bootable QL with all the extensions, loads of
executable progs, docs, games, etc, even Qascade on mine with a few meg to
spare. Try doing that on a PC - you wouldn't even fit a bare install of
Windows on it.
Cheers,
Darren Branagh,
Bank of Ireland - Cards And Loans Business,
Nassau House, 33/35 Nassau Street, Dublin 2. Ireland.
Tel: 1850-530-530 Fax: 01-6706813.
Norman Dunbar
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Dilwyn jested :
>> The USB pocket drives like those would be great for someone like
>> Norman who does most of his QLing in his lunchbreak in work, that way
>> he would never lose/corrupt his zip disks again and he could take his
>> work to and from home on his keyring! As you say, a 64MB QXL.WIN on a
>> keyring!
Now there's an idea. Because my new PC at work underwent surgery just
yesterday to fit the Zip drive back in. Guess waht, no suitbale slot to
plug
the damned SCSI interface card into. Seems that the newest PCs don't have
an
ISA slot at all !!
I've got USB on this box and USB at home, so I should (!) be able to get
something running - if only I had a keyriong thingy !
Cheers,
Norman.
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Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.
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