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  polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> wrote:
> On 20/05/2014 16:09, Johny B Good wrote:
>>   The LS120, otoh, looked way more promising (compatable with standard
>> 720k and 1.44M floppies and a 120MiB capacity versus the 95MiB
>> capacity of Zip).

> If LS120 drives had been cheap enough for PC manufacturers to include as 
> standard, and available several years earlier, they might well have 
> dominated. Like so many technological products, by the time they were 
> available, they were obviously destined for obsolescence.

> There was an awkward gap between standard floppies and USB sticks big 
> enough and cheap enough to be useful.

No there wasn't.

Floppies gave way to CD-Rs around 1995 for non-windows users (who *had*
to use floppies for drivers as much as ten years after the floppy became
otherwise irrelevant) and CD-Rs went away with DVD-Rs. Then the USB
thumb drive started to get useful sizes, though I had no interest in
them until they were in the 2GB range.

I did have one 128MB thumb drive that I kept some reference documents on
for my work, but other than having it on my keychain, I never really
needed to use it,

-- 
They were the observers of the operation of the universe, its clerks,
its auditors. They saw to it that things spun and rocks fell.  And they
believed that for a thing to exist it had to have a position in time and
space. Humanity had arrived as a nasty shock. Humanity practically was
things that didn't have a position in time and space, such as
imagination, pity, hope, history and belief. Take those away and all you
had was an ape that fell out of trees a lot.  --The Thief of Time

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the worst storage media of all time RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-19 14:49 +0000
  Re: the worst storage media of all time polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-05-19 19:34 +0100
    Re: the worst storage media of all time Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-20 16:09 +0100
      Re: the worst storage media of all time Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-05-20 16:36 +0100
        Re: the worst storage media of all time Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-21 02:49 +0100
      Re: the worst storage media of all time polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-05-21 08:36 +0100
        Re: the worst storage media of all time Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-21 13:19 +0100
          Re: the worst storage media of all time RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-21 13:07 +0000
        Re: the worst storage media of all time Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-21 14:35 +0000
          Re: the worst storage media of all time polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-05-21 22:40 +0100
            Re: the worst storage media of all time Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-22 15:52 +0000
              Re: the worst storage media of all time Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-05-22 13:53 -0600
          Re: the worst storage media of all time Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-05-21 23:34 -0600
            Re: the worst storage media of all time Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-05-22 02:19 -0700

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