Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)

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From: Rick Richardson
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1988 00:53

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In article <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
>One question: Why the hell have a floppy drive when you have a 256MB
>removable erasable optical disk?

Because even "free" software will cost $50 on an eraseable optical disk,
at least for the next several years.  Plus, there is no "standard" eraseable
optical disk, and 256MB is just too small (given other announced alternatives)
to make me believe that it will be the standard.
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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
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Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
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Date: 15 Oct 88 00:53:04 GMT
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