Re: superformat?
Quoting Michael Soulier (msoulier@storm.ca):
> 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,
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