[Year 12 IT Apps] R.I.P. Floppy

[Biggins, Leanne D]

Hi, since Mark mentions storage space, this comes to mind.  In a junior class, we have an assignment that requires students to access a bank of school produced photos on a particular topic, and copy 10 or so to their work.  The problem is that the teacher that took these photos did so with his new whiz bang camera, and he saved them (134) as bigger than 3 MB images EACH.  The photos are taking ages to download even as thumbnails and then 10 or so need to be selected and copied to the student's work.  This is a painfully slow process.  The teacher of the class has asked if there is an easy way for him to access the images, then re save them IN BULK as a smaller file size.  I don't know the answer.  Please help.
Leanne Biggins
Heathmont College

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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Mark KELLY
Sent: Tue 27/04/2010 7:54 AM
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Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] R.I.P. Floppy


"Fully 12 years after the original G3 iMac dropped support for the 3.5-inch floppy disk, Sony has finally decided to stop making them. The reason is a lack of demand. The surprise is that it took so long. 

If you still rely on the massive 1.44MB of space to move files quickly around between far-flung computers, don't worry: Sony will keep the production lines running until March 2011, giving you a year to stockpile the things. You won't be alone. Apparently, "lack of demand" is somewhat relative, and Sony sold a jaw-dropping 12 million floppies in Japan during 2009."

Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/sony-announces-the-death-of-the-floppy-disk/#ixzz0mFIZeePW


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