the new Apple iMac

From: R. Stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Thu May 7 18:31:15 1998

On Thu, 7 May 1998, Max Eskin wrote:

> I can imagine a floppy disk stealing his college thesis. Pretty
> likely, actually. AFAIK, though, NO NeXT has shipped with floppies,
> but rather with MOs, which are pretty annoying because of the many
> formats and price per disk.

Wrong. Every last NeXTstation shipped with a 2.88 MB ED floppy drive. A
number of the later 040 cubes did as well.

> Actually, if I were to design a computer, I would consider not
> including a floppy drive, or at least making it so that it doesn't
> depend on it.

I totally agree. Any more, floppy disk drives are more a PITA than they
are useful. Creation is no longer the focus of home computing---the
browser took care of that issue. This means having removable, writeable
media is less of a priority. In the corporate setting, where computers are
still used primarily for creation and dissemination, you have LANs to
alleviate the need for such media.

The floppy plays little role in modern computing.

ok
r.
Received on Thu May 07 1998 - 18:31:15 BST