World's Crappiest Drives (was Re: A&J Microdrive)

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Wed Dec 6 13:57:46 2000

Mike Ford skrev:

>>Actually, I think CD-ROM deserves a nomination. It's an optical floppy
>>/without/ any protection from outside forces whatsoever. It's actually quite
>>horrible. It's also a read-only memory. Granted, there are burners trickling
>>down the market now, ten years after the introduction of the medium, but to
>>write anything to a CD, you have to go through an intricate mastering
>>process. At least cassettes usually had a simple user interface.

>Sniff, its always sad to hear about life in non mac places. With the Mac
>and even my OLD Sony I could drag and drop files just like with a floppy,
>except of course files like music tracks from other CDs are automatically
>accomodated. The burn command is explicit as it must be, but the rest is
>fairly transparent using Toast. Creating a production master of an audio CD
>from raw sound files is a bit more complicated, but just about anything
>else could have all the instructions on a single sheet of paper.

Compare it to a floppy. There is a jungle of abstraction layers compared to a
floppy.

>Robust 650 MB of storage on media cheap as floppies, I need more punishment
>like that.

Robust? They're rather unwieldly, too, not the kind you'd stuff into your
shirt pocket.

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Received on Wed Dec 06 2000 - 13:57:46 GMT

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