Actually Zenith Data systems made a floppy drive that used 2 inch diskettes, and it used very very little power. I believe it used like 300ma during a head seek and 100 during a read. They were used in minisport laptops -- which are a nice thing too... these things are tiny, but unfortunately are 8086 based, (Dang it cant they make a 386 that small!) The only drawback is that 5 years ago when I was playing with one of these creatures the 2 inch floppy disks were 12 bucks apiece, and now are probably more than a zip disk. I dont see a need for a external storage device, IrDA to your desktop at home would be fine, and if you really really want to xfer data to someone bring an adapter for a PC with you. (Or just ftp it via the net!) On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Robert Nagy wrote: > > I think that the floppy would be useful for small file transfers, > > and other tasks which this technology has proven itself on over the > > years. In addition a built in floppy would make it very easy to boot > > Linux in the event that the hard disk or file system crashed. > > Thanks in advance. > > actually speaking about small transfer devices. Check this one out. > http://www.iomega.com/product/clik/index.html > > 40megs on a little cartridge that plugs into a pcmcia slot! > > Now that is something I'd think of integrating into a wearable. > Especially since more advanced bioses these days even allow you to boot > off the zip type drives. > > Robert Nagy >
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