Floppiless (was: the new Apple iMac) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 May 1998

At 07:31 PM 5/7/98 -0400, you wrote:
...
   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 
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. 
I kinda have to agree.  My laptop has had a dead floppy drive for some time
now; probably over 2 years.  The only time I really miss it is a) when I
want to move data/pgms to a machine/person not "connected" or b) when I
want to install (floppy-only) software.  

The first is handled by the net, the second by getting software on CD (or
swapping my HD into an identical machine with a good floppy.)  

Nowadays, data and programs are both so big as to make floppies unusuable.
(Can you imagine backing up 1GB to floppy? 8^)

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