"Tamas Rudnai" <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:492f1420706150219v1da15952ga2c56c172553f93e@mail.gmail.com...
> About 6 yrs ago I bought a SmartMedia adaptor like this. It had a socket 
> for
> the memory card and you could insert this device into an ordinary floppy
> drive so you could read and write your media like that. By that time it 
> was
> cool, but nowadays a USB adaptor makes more sense as most recently 
> produced
> PCs does not equipped with floppy drive. I'm not even sure if WIndows is
> capable of handling other than FAT12 on a floppy drive? Anyway, that 
> floppy
> adaptor needed two CR232 batteries as far as I remember which did not last
> too long when heavily used.

I didn't remember these things.  Looks like you can still buy them:

http://www.usbflashstore.com/sasmflflad.html

Here's an MMC/SD version (which would seem to be the more popular flash 
format today):

http://www.usbflashstore.com/smarsecdigfl.html

The advantage here is you don't have to open the older PC's case to boot 
from this.

The downside is that it appears you have to install drivers for these 
things...

Jeff
-- 
    "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
     little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
     safety"
- B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)



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