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Originally Posted by Penforhire
I did. The days of 1.44 MB floppies coincided in my family with photo files that just about filled one floppy per image. That effort was considerable...
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No offense meant, but did this not make you stop and think whether digital cameras were really more practical than film at this time? Making a presumption about image quality, I can't imagine that data transfer was the biggest problem with this setup.
We're at a different stage with data files now. The tech is rather more mature: a portable harddrive with 2,000 MB storage is reasonably priced. That's a big enough difference that it ceases to be merely quanitative, and qualitatively changes the way people use the tech. I'd even suggest we're getting to a stage where the mass of people will demand backwards compatibility with new word / image processing software, and software companies will likely fail without providing this.