Re: A Call To Arms!!

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From: Paul Thurrott
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 00:00

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The "floppy" isn't the problem: The iMac comes with no removable
media at all. That's a huge problem, no matter how you slice it.
They should have either included something (floppy, SuperDrive,
ZIP disk, whatever) or, at the very least, used the drive bay
from newer PowerBooks so you could swap out the floppy/ZIP/etc.
with the CDROM.

Whatever.  The iMac is cheap. The floppy is the least of its
problems.

Paul

rodney hendricks wrote in message <36389BA8.3B12B69D@tartarus.uwa.edu.au>...
>Pat wrote:
>>
>> Have you tried putting in a floppy in the NEW IMAC ???
>> Pat
>>
>
>Have you noticed all the software on the market that is distributed on
>floppy???
>What next - take a swipe at imacs for not having a punch card reader???
>I wouldn't use a floppy; educational institutions don't want floppies; i
>doubt any new home computer user would want one either.  And that is the
>target iMac market.
>
>Rod
>---
>*** Apple:  "How can we stir up a pc user today?" ***

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From: "Paul Thurrott" <thurrott@NO...SPAM...wugnet.com>
Subject: Re: A Call To Arms!!
Date: 1998/11/01
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