Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past (fwd) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 Sep 2004

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 From: "Ethan Dicks"
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  Now if you were to say that the serial port is
disappearing ... well
 then I would be concerned. 
The serial port _is_ disappearing.  I am concerned.  I have a number of 
Hi
 I'm starting to have what I call linkage machines. I have
a lap top with a CDROM drive that I tranfer stuff to a desk top
with CROM and floppies. From the floppy, I go to an older lap top
to send serial to my older machines. I expect someday I'll have
a DVD writer to talk to a machine that only uses DVD's.
 It is the weakest chain linking but what else to do?
Dwight