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Those speeeedy floppy drives
I wanted to move a 29252 byte file from my Mac over to the IIgs this
evening, and the first low-density disk I found happened to be
ProDOS-formatted. Knowing that PC Exchange allows the Mac to use those
disks, I stuck in in the Mac disk drive and started copying the file. The
slow access usually associated with using non-Mac-formatted floppies became
especially tedious when the Finder decided to write a 150k Desktop file to
the floppy, prompting the following in the file copy dialog box:
Time remaining: About 1,193,047 hours.
That works out to a data transfer rate of about 5 hours per bit.
Fortunately it did not take that long.
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Eric Bennett, [email protected], Cornell University Biochemistry Department
http://www.pobox.com/~ericb (Follow "About Me" link for PGP public key.)
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lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the
fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into
it in the first place. -Douglas Adams
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