Floppies becoming obsolete

[miah]

My NeXT Turbo Workstation has a floppy on it...

-miah

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:39:39PM -0400, dan at geer.org wrote:
> 
>     FWIW - Steve Jobs' NeXT computer didn't include a floppy in 1989 because 
>     it had a 256MB magneto-optical disc instead.  Visionary but way ahead of 
>     it's time.  Everyone had data on floppies and there was no way to 
>     transfer that data (Internet was available but not pervasive nor fast.)  
>     However, the bigger problem was that software vendors had to distribute 
>     their software on 256MB cartridges which was too expensive.
> 
> 
> Well, he had single handedly made the 3.5" floppy
> a standard so he expected to be able to do it again.
> (On the original Mac, he got Canon drives at cost
> on the very basis of the boast that he would make
> it a standard, and he made his boast come true.)
> 
> --dan
> 
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