[Gllug] anyone know a source for 3.5" DSDD floppy disks?

Henrik Morsing henrik at morsing.cc
Sat Mar 20 17:50:26 UTC 2004


On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Richard Jones wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 05:04:40PM +0000, Henrik Morsing wrote:

> Well, apart from the obvious (WiFi, ethernet and the 'net), I tend to
> find CF cards much more convenient and reliable than floppies.

1. They're not available in *all* computers you come across.
2. Not all hardware and OSs support them
3. You can't rely on being able to boot any random system/OS from them
4. They're way too expensive to carry around en masse

And

1. How can you imply that any random computer has 'net or Wifi access to
any other random computer?

Cheers
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