The flopy has been dead for ages! It's frankly, useless. My mom works in a
school, and only has a -6100 to use there, but she doesn't use the floppy
after the last time it ate her report cards, if she wants to transfer things
home she emails 'em, and vice versa. Besides, you speak as if the the
floppy has been JUST removed from the new macs, its been gone for 3 YEARS
since the first iMac came out. In the begining I sold a lot of floppy
drives with the unit, now, maybe 1 or 2 in a month. Even on my peecee
laptop the only time I've used the floppy drive is because I couldn't get it
to boot of CD to install Win2k
Andre
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[mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]De la part de Brian
Envoye : mercredi 30 janvier 2002 01:31
A : newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Objet : Re: [NTLK] NCU-like software native MacOS X: what prevents it
>On 2002-01-29 17:33, "Stephen Jendraszak" <stevehj_at_mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Apple (or the company's CEO, for that matter) has not killed the floppy,
>> serial devices, or SCSI. These devices are antiquated. The technology
>> (save for some special applications) had outlived it's useful life.
>
>Not at all. Floppies are still used by PC folks and are a very quick and
>dirty way to exchange small files. I personally haven't used them at home
>for years, but they would have come in handy last summer.
Until fireware, SCSI was the fastest option for easy external peripherals.
and firewire isn't widespread even yet.
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.
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.
The 3rd party manufacturers must be wetting themselves with glee about SJ
leaving the floppy off new Macs. A $10 item going for $50-80.
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.
B
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