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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I do read comics on a tablet. Partly because American comics are in color and partly because tablets are usually able to handle the larger file size of comics.
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I think 1 T Byte μSD are available and if it's not an Apple tablet. I was fixing up an old PC-Tower last two days with Win98/DOS7 so as to read old floppies (I can do that in theory on Linux, even CP/M, and a couple of hours ago I discovered one Linux box does have a real floppy port, a USB drive is very limited).
I wondered what was wrong with the 1.2 M 5.25" floppy drive (I think I know) and was thinking the smallest SMD IC on it is larger than a micro-SD card, which can store a MILLION times one floppy. And full size SD cards can have two chips in them.
I used the 160 G Byte 2.5" IDE HDD out of a dead Archos player to copy files to the Win98 box by putting it in a USB adaptor for source and into a 2.5" IDE to 3.5" IDE adaptor/carrier for Win98. Eventually managed to install a 3rd party USB storage driver. Except I didn't need to do any of it. Oh well, the Realtek AC97 drivers (Mobo supplier or other) crashed Win98, so disabled the Mobo AC97 and stuck in a SB Live! 1024 card, which surprisingly adds SB16 emulation for DOS. Perhaps I can play ancient games on it. I read all the old 3.5" DOS floppies but not yet the CP/M ones and got most of the files (1993 to 1999). Nothing exciting.
So a €250 10″ LCD Android with SD slot, or Nintendo Switch is amazing and makes a Win98 PC with expensive GFX look like junk.
My wife got a Nintendo Switch and apparently if you get bored with what might be the biggest game catalogue it can "read" comics and epubs (poorly for the ebooks I think). I got her "only" a 256 G byte micro SD card as the larger capacities are expensive. Probably the SD card is cheaper than a box of floppies in real terms in 1990s.
She's not tried comics (doesn't read them) or eBooks (has a Sage, did have PW3 originally). I think a Nintendo might be possible and it will drive an HDMI HD screen too. The OLED version is only a little larger. We got the LCD model. She has a 10" tablet but never uses it. Uses a laptop.