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So apparently you can just, type the word eject into bash and it will pop open your disk drive
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I've never encountered another LS-120 user before. When it came out I assumed it would be the future, because 120 megabyte freaking laser assisted floppy, am I right? Turns out I was very much mistaken, and CD-R took over.
I also made the same mistake regarding CF vs SD cards.
CF, or their follow-up CFast, are still in industrial PCs - at least in the Beckhoff IPCs my (ok, more like "my customers") Automat is sporting
Used as system storage and easy to swap for the customer in regards of backups, if something breaks
For the next storage revolution go with the opposite of your prediction maybe
I'm hoping for MacroSD. About the size of a 3.5" floppy so you won't lose it easily.
Seriously, it's interesting that now that we have the tech to make a useful-capacity storage device the size of a credit card, we don't. Not like those crappy giveaway flash drives printed with a card design, where they had a captive USB head and were 4x as thick as a card, but something with just contacts like a chip card, so you might need to use an external reader but it really preserves the wallet-size concept.
I'd love to have a cheap 16GB card in my wallet with all my health records and a cryptographically signed copy of my will as a one-stop, no cloud required, emergency kit.
120 MB? That’s more than a ZipDisk!
I knew I attended a well-funded modern college because all the computers had been upgraded with ZipDrives.
Yep, Zip drives only had 100MB, the disks were clunky and were prone to get the Click of Death (not that LS-120 disks were any better in that sense, of course).