Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!jrg From: jrg@doc.ic.ac.uk (James Robert Grinter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: high density discs. Keywords: discs Message-ID: <1991Jun10.163959.17606@doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 10 Jun 91 16:39:59 GMT References: <1967@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK. Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: flamingo.doc.ic.ac.uk rcpieter@wsinfo11.info.win.tue.nl (Tiggr) writes: >yorkr@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Richard York) writes: >> The arc over the last few years has become much more memory hungry due to >>much bigger and better software. Bigger floppies now seem a good way to go. >It would be better, at this moment in time, to skip the 2Mb floppies >and go straight for the 4Mb ones. (This would make backing up 150Mb >onto floppies a tiny bit bearable again.) The only problem with 4MB floppies, at the moment, is the price. The most recent advert I saw was 10 floppies for about 70 pounds sterling. James. -- James Grinter, Dept of Computing, Imperial College JANET: jrg@uk.ac.ic.doc 180, Queen's Gate, LONDON SW7 2BZ DARPA: jrg@doc.ic.ac.uk UUCP: jrg@icdoc.UUCP, ..!ukc!icdoc!jrg "If it works, leave it alone!"