Re: Oddball Woz/Jobs Question

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pdueck@pli.mb.ca (Perry Dueck) wrote:

>Besides being off topic, I don't really see the big deal of leaving out a
>built in 3.5" drive on a modern day computer (1998)... I mean, I use my
>1993 era Mac's floppy drive once in a blue moon, or about once every six
>months, if even that (and then only when I'm transferring stuff to my IIgs
>when I feel like doing it the hard way, without the Appletalk connection).
>I mean, with today's CD-ROM's, Zip, Jazz, and other external and/or
>removable medium drives, what's the point of a little old 3.5" floppy disk
>which can hold less data than your average modern digital wrist watch RAM
>chips (if they even have any)????

Floppy drives are not much use for a IIGS even!

My IIGS functions with a Zip Drive and a couple of hard drives.  The
3.5" floppy rarely gets used.

By the way, did you know that the average Apple IIGS has more
memory and processing power than the Space Shuttle's computers?
Remember...this was a spacecraft designed in the 70s.