Date   : Mon, 06 Jun 2005 23:20:24 +0200
From   : John Kortink <kortink@...>
Subject: Re: GoMMC versus hard drive. Which way to go?

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:51:49 +0100, "BeebMaster" wrote:

>I'm definitely in favour of hard drives.
>
>I'm backing 1980s solutions for 1980s machines!  You can't beat a good
old ST-506 hard drive
>connected up to the Beeb for that authentic 8-bit feel, not all this
new-fangled modern stuff being
>bolted onto the BBC

You mean, like 5.25" floppies were to tape users. Or like
harddiscs were to 5.25" floppy users. ;-)

> - that's cheating!

Okay, grandpa. ;-)

>Consider this very carefully:  what would you rather have storing all
your Acorn data:
>
>A hard drive the size of a shoe box which weighs the equivalent of a
couple of breeze blocks and
>clatters away like nobody's business, beautifully crafted by artisans
and still working after 20
>years

Though not much longer now. Hold on for that special
puff of smoke. ;-)

>or a mass-manufactured bit of plastic the size of a postage stamp you
can shove in a digital camera?

The latter for me, please, thanks. I'd rather not wait
for the dying gasp of steam engine technology. ;-)

Interesting though it may sometimes be, I must add.


John Kortink


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