On 2002-01-29 19:31, "Brian" <bmcewen_at_mediaone.net> wrote:
> Until fireware, SCSI was the fastest option for easy external peripherals.
> and firewire isn't widespread even yet.
I'm sure that any peripheral I buy in the future will be USB or Firewire,
but I really don't want to replace my current ones yet. They work great.
> I have yet to see an iMac or B/W G3 in any business or university without a
> stupid floppy on a cable added on. Even with Novell or AppleshareIP
> networking available.
That's the problem sometimes in that the network is not available. Either
the card or LAN is bust or something else and all you want to do is get a
file from the Mac to the PC 5 feet away. Even finding a cross-over cable and
configuring the networking takes much longer than writing and reading a
floppy.
That's not to say that I want to see floppy life prolonged, I just want
reliable file transfer at all times. Networks have a long way to go until
they're "always on".
> And the hardware to lockdown your CPU just got one more piece that needs
> purchased by the business/school; something to lock down that stupid
> expensive floppy.
Or those cute optical mice Apple makes. :-)
> Floppies will be useless someday; but not yet, for most people. I hate to
> use them even at present, that's why I run my ftpd, most stuff I generate
> would not fit on 20 floppies anyway, but face it, we're computer nerds, as
> compared to the rest of the marketplace.
I prefer the term geek to nerd. My home LAN is 100BT switched with a G4
server doing double duty as an AirPort base station. An iMac is my MP3
player reading the files over AirPort from the G4. For that old 7100 in the
basement I can always string an Ethernet cable to it or use a Zip. At home,
I never need floppies. At work, with the PC folks, well that's a different
story.
...Tom
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