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Does anyone invision the floppy drives that ship with NeXT's to be  
replaced with128MB EO's(3.5")??  I know that the cost per MB is  
cheaper than floppies, and the drives are much faster than regular  
floppies(28ms).

I think that this would be a bold and wonderful move.  I just wish that  
some dear company would really mass market those drives.  I am  
sure that they could put one of these in every machine at a more  
affordable rate and set a new standard.  I would definitely run out and  
buy one if it were priced in the a more reasonable range. (Around 650  
would be fair.)  I have seen the inner workings, and there is not $1500  
worth of hardware there.  

The drives are really small, and are getting faster and achieving  
higher format capacities.  In the 17 Jul MacWeek, there is an add for  
a higher capacity 256 drive(not done with compression either).   
NeXT's dream to use the EO technology failed because the drives  
were too slow.  3.5" EO's could really set a new standard and  
revitalize that earlier "vision thing" NeXT started.  I wish that NeXT  
would embrace this idea and put that technology to work in the NeXT  
community.  They are creating new standards in every other facet of  
the computing environment.  Why don't they jump on this one.  Have  
users purchase a 3.5 DOS/MAC floppy as an external.  If they have  
to have that.  At $49.00/128MB's there would be a lot of happy users. 

-Anyway it is just an idea........
Moose
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