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Re: NeXT's BIG 3.5" mistake.

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From: Jacob Ben-david Zimmerman
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1988 19:25
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In article <8417@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wetter@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Pierce T. Wetter) writes:
>>> also too expensive to give away the optifloppy (I like that word too!) media.
>->                                       ^^^^^^^^^^
>-> How about "flopitical disk" :-)
> > 
>    How about optofloppy.  (o instead of an i) 
>Just my .02$
>Pierce

-sounds a lot like Kill-O-Zap or some other midfifties advertising
slogan...   Opt-O-Floppy...?:-)
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From: zimerman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Ben-david Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NeXT's BIG 3.5" mistake.
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Date: 27 Oct 88 19:25:19 GMT
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