- RE: [WinMac] Re: iMac

Michael bartosh(bartosh[at]tamu.edu)
Fri, 5 Feb 1999 10:35:23 -0600

> It seems to me that anyone buying an iMac or G3 w/out a floppy drive is
> going to buy either an internal or external zip (100 meg floppy) or Jaz
> (1 or 2 gig) or SuperDrive (120 meg floppy that can handle 1.4 meg
> floppy -- and there is your floppy right back again).
>
> I'm sure the whole missing floppy issue was a cost related issue (in the
> very real and smart guise of innovation). And for anyone in the know
> (knowing the floppy would be missing from the iMac), it has probably
> been a good financial investment on the short term to buy stock in any
> company that has supplied the 1st generation of products that supplies
> these missing or new innovation devices or standards (1394).

It's not a cost issue at all- in fact the hardware is on the iMac
motherboard for floppy and serial. It is about moving towards a
networked paradigm.

On a secondary note, the biggest overal purchase for new pc buyers is
a large capacity removable storage drive. So why include a floppy if
it is going to be supplemented immediately?

-mab

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