Re: Floppies

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Bible John wrote:
> In article <43a8e9a5$0$25254$cd3e3bf6@news.enter.net>,
>  "thewises" <thewises@enter.net> wrote:
>
>
> > I have hundreds of floppy disks. Most of them are 3.5" HD, but I also have 
> > 3.5" DD disks, as well as a number of 5.25" disks(both DD and HD), and I 
> > would never use a computer without a floppy drive. BTW, I recently saw an ad 
> > for a Gateway PC. This computer had a panel below the floppy drive where you 
> > could fit a second floppy. Imagine if somebody actually put dual floppy 
> > drives in their sleek new 2Ghz Pentium. That would blow some minds. 
>
>
> What do you say about this anti floppy propaganda of the newer 
> generation?  

John, it's pretty clear that you have an axe to grind.

Since this newsgroup is dedicated to the Apple II, whose
very existence is based on 143KB 5.25" floppies, perhaps
you could grind it somewhere else.

Go bother the Mac folks--they seem to have opinions about
floppies...

-michael

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