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Article #143Re: OD vs ADB, no contest
From: Nathan F. Janette
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 03:45
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 03:45
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In article <1992Nov1.153339.17977@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> jfreem@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) writes: > > It seems that NeXT , for the time being, decided that third parties > would better fill the removable media niche. Whether that was a > good decision or not, is your own opinion. If it wasn't required standard equipment, the points about it adding to the cost would be moot. What we lose by NeXT not proclaiming a standard for such larger removable media devices is the ability to interchange such media with other NeXTs, like we used to be able to with the original OD drives. Ours still work fine BTW. -- Nathan Janette PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!yale.edu!yale!cs.yale.edu!news From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) Subject: Re: OD vs ADB, no contest Message-ID: <1992Nov2.034546.18163@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: hilbert.biology.yale.edu Reply-To: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT References: <1992Nov1.153339.17977@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Distribution: na Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 03:45:46 GMT Lines: 23