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

[Glen VanDenBiggelaar]

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


>I agree with that. Why try to get compatibility with 3.5" HD drives that
>were a) never stock coco parts and b) are no longer going to be a good
>sneakernet?
>
>More exciting would be to get Coco-USB working, then see if we can make
>it talk to one of these cheapie USB flash reader/writers (working units
>under $15 typically).
>
>Smaller sizes of flash memory are going for free-after-rebate these
>days. But "smaller" in the pc marketplace is anything under 256M at the
>moment! I think everything ever made for coco could be fit on one flash
>card.
>
>-- John.
>
>
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