From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tapio Sokura Subject: Re: Announcing Portable PREDICT Plus! Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 23:02:50 +0300 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <410411EA.30709@iki.fi> References: <20040725183329.90335.qmail@web52604.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040725183329.90335.qmail@web52604.mail.yahoo.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org John Magliacane wrote: > Portable PREDICT Plus boots from a pair of floppy disks and runs > entirely in RAM. There's no need to download huge CDROM images, But what about small bootable CD-ROM images? In this day and age, floppy drives are getting rare, especially on laptops. I realize that updating the keplerian elements and storing the configuration would not be as easy or possible at all when using a CD (maybe a USB flash memory could be used?), but at least it would make a nice demo environment. I'm not saying that a customized floppy distribution is bad, on the contrary, I find it admirable that there are people that have knowledge as well as energy to develop these systems. And espcially write the documents (= instructions) ! Tapio