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Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot

From	Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot
Date	2016-09-04 00:04 -0400
Organization	National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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On Sat, 3 Sep 2016, The Real Bev wrote:

> On 09/03/2016 01:11 PM, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
>> On 09/01/2016 11:33 PM, RS Wood wrote:
>>> Creative and cool tech:
>>> 
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/01/floppy_disk_flash_aint_bendable_and_shouldnt_flop/
>>> 
>>> Floppy disk sales have, well, flopped but there are still masses of PCs 
>>> and
>>> old embedded PC-based systems out there with floppy disk slots and drives.
>>> Now this near-dead space can be made usable again, with a 32GB FLOPPYFlash
>>> drive from Solid State Disks Ltd.
>>> 
>>> It's a drop-in replacement for a floppy disk drive and takes CompactFlash
>>> solid state cards instead of floppy disk media.  The firmware is
>>> field-upgradable via an included USB port.
>
> I have to wonder why the guy chose CF, the most expensive format.  Seems 
> dumb.
>
It does seem odd.

I gather COmpactflash were easily interfaced to IDE, so they make a 
certain sense for solid state replacements of hard drives (especially when 
probably there is equipment out there that might benefit from such an 
upgrade).  SD cards are different, I thought requiring more of an 
interface.

But if you're taking a floppy drive interface, I don't think  the 
available bus is easily translateable, so you probably need a 
microprocessor and then it doesn't matter what kind of memory card, so you 
might as well go cheap.

The reality is SD cards have taken over, so they are denser, and cheaper. 
But even Compactflash is better than some formats.  I found a neat little 
camera, decent number of megapixels, but not only does it use a special 
battery, but it uses XD cards.  Or that 1.4MP DSLR someone gave me, it 
uses a smartcard (I think that's what they were called), the only one of 
those I've seen is in the camera, some minor amount of memory.

   Michael

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Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-09-01 21:33 +0000
  Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de> - 2016-09-03 22:11 +0200
    Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-09-03 20:15 -0700
      Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-09-04 00:04 -0400
        Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-09-03 21:17 -0700
          Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-09-04 12:28 -0400
          Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-09-04 17:29 +0100
            Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-09-04 19:11 +0200
              Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-09-04 13:32 -0400
                Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-09-04 19:51 +0200
                Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-09-05 19:55 -0400
                Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2016-09-06 20:56 +0000
            Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-09-09 13:44 -0400
        Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2016-09-05 14:13 +0100
    Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2016-09-06 20:46 +0000
  Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-09-04 17:45 +0200
    Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-09-04 19:33 +0200
    Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-09-04 22:28 +0200
      Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-09-04 22:36 +0200
    Re: Solid state cartridge fits 1.44MB floppy slot pnwdaemon@always.wet - 2016-09-07 15:07 +0000

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