28 Apr
2010
28 Apr
'10
2:20 p.m.
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Like when Apple stopped including a floppy drive in
iMacs (remember
all the screaming in PC quarters about how they were still important?)
We laughed at Jobs when he didn't have a floppy drive in the Next.
("How can ANY software marketing be done without cheap writable, mailable
media?")
But, eventually, the market caught up with his closed hardware dream, with
internet distribution. "But it will take DAYS to download a word
processor, even at 1200 bps!"
But, like B&W photographic print paper, it is possible to still find some
with enough searching. There don't seem to be any local sources for film
for my still and movie cameras, other than 35mm color.