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Started by Moose
Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:17
NeXT to ship128MB EO's as replacements for 3.5" drives--Nice thought?
Author: Moose
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:17
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:17
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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 NeXTMail > moose@moose.nosc.mil
Re: NeXT to ship128MB EO's as replacements for 3.5" drives--Nice thought?
Author: Eskandar Ensafi
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:45
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:45
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In article <5649@nosc.NOSC.MIL> Moose@nosc.NOSC.MIL writes: > 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). > These drives are already available -- in black cases too -- for anyone who might need them. There is no reason why NeXT should manufacture their own. As for replacing the floppies with them, it's not a good idea. The original NeXT internal optical was too expensive for software distribution, even at the original $50/disk price. And most software companies don't need 128 MB of storage (no to mention 256 MB) to distribute software -- I mean how much clip art, examples, etc... do you want to stuff into Illustrator, Mathematica, etc...? Unless you want to distribute an entire OS, but NeXT is using CD-ROM for that purpose, and CD's are smaller, lighter, more durable and hold about 600 MB! A 128 MB device, although faster, would fail because of these same old reasons: 1) Expensive media -- several 1.44 MB floppies @ $0.50 each can do the job. 2) Expensive drive -- Raises the price of a NeXTstation by at least $1000. 3) File sharing & interplatform compatibility -- everyone uses floppies. 4) Demand -- not everyone needs such a high capacity removable storage device. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eskandar Ensafi | esky@marathon.cs.ucla.edu
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