🚀 go-pugleaf

Michael Thibault wrote:

> In article <keston-2605991125590001@cr492282-a.ym1.on.wave.home.com>,
> keston@home.com (Keston Charles) wrote:
>
> The original poster was definitely asking for several hundred more than
> the machine is worth. On the subject of the iMac, the floppy, the external
> USB/SCSI/Zip... fugedaboudit! Buy yourself a $10 Ethernet crossover cable
> and turn on file-sharing. Or send the files via email. It's ridiculous to
> claim you "need" something as antiquated as a floppy drive, really
> entirely ridiculous.

    Don't be so quick to dismiss the needs of others. Every document I write, I
archive on disquette after sending it to the company for which I write. I could
store much more than one document per diskette (or other medium), but in case the
medium goes bad then I only lose that one document. A diskette also makes the
document very portable (at least for now) and cheaper than a CD-R.

> And I wouldn't spend $10 on a Zip drive; they're proprietary-format,
> cheesily-built, and prone to all kinds of mysterious ailments (Click o'
> Death e.g.).

    I agree. My sister was looking to buy a Zip drive, but I told her that a CD-RW
- with recordable CD's at about $4 each and a capacity of 650 megabytes - was a
much better alternative, and more portable.




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