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Hello David - 

CA>>>> I thought you said you and the wife _had_ no floppies?
CA>>>> ;-) 

DD>>> It was many moons ago... 

CA>> Did she have to wear a patch for awhile or was she
CA>> hypnotized to break the habit? 

DD> None of the above, the USB drive proved to be far more
DD> effective than the floppies were. 

USB external drives looked good to me for awhile until people
started finding software that was incompatible. I'm not sure I
want to deal with proprietary hardware. 

DD>>>>>>> Files are moved via networks, or those little USB
DD>>>>>>> memory drive thingies. 

CA>>>> No person I know in the real world has a working
CA>>>> intranet in their homes and no one I know in the real
CA>>>> world owns one of those "little USB memory drive
CA>>>> thingies". 

DD>>> Intranet? Computers have been sold with LAN cards for
DD>>> quite a few years now as standard (or can be purchased
DD>>> even here for less than AUS$30.00) How do you share you
DD>>> Internet feed between machines in the home? 

CA>> Last time I checked I was connected to a router that was
CA>> connected to the broadband 'modem'. How do you share your
CA>> internet feed? 

DD> Via the LAN within our home. The router is just one device
DD> on that LAN - all of the computers on the network have
DD> Internet access. 

My setup had no 'shared' files or directories, just the
internet access. 

DD>>> I'm not sure that I'd call a simple peer to peer home LAN
DD>>> as an Intranet. 

CA>> Let's not go there - long story. 

DD>>> Nearly everyone I know here with a computer owns one of
DD>>> those USB memory drive thingies - perhaps technology here
DD>>> is cheaper than I thought... 

CA>> Possibly. CDs are quite inexpensive here. The 'thingies'
CA>> at dollar(s) per meg seemed less than a bargain to me.
CA>> When/if they get a 512meg'r down to say $10 I will
CA>> reconsider - maybe. 

DD> CDs are just so slow to burn 

Mine _was_ slow until I bought a newer CDRW 52x35x52 for $30US.
Now it takes just a bit over 4 minutes. :-) 

DD> plus require "special" software and hardware to be
DD> installed on the machine in order to write the data to the
DD> media. 

Both Windows and Linux install burning software as a part of
the install. Not sure about Macs but I'd guess they do too. 

DD> The USB drives are just "recognised" by all 2000/XP/2003
DD> machines. 

Not recognized by all software as evidenced in the Win95 echo
of late. 

DD> The USB drive is more efficient when just copying files to
DD> another location too. 

Possibly. I would have to use 2-400 CDs to match the cost of
one external USB drive and by that time the drive would be
obsolete replaced by something even better? ;-) 

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