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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: What's coming?
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Date: 17 Jun 89 12:29:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Jun 17 07:29:00 1989



>High Capacity Disk Drives?  The NeXT ships with a 256 Meg removable,
>read/write Optical disk.  Is that high enough capacity?  They also make
>available 330Meg and 660Meg hard drives.  And to top that off there is a
>standard SCSI port and you can go vendor shopping and pick up pretty much
>anything you want.

I think the writer means a standard, either 5 1/4 or 3 inch FLOPPY
drive! The optical disk is basically for backup and long-term
storage - it is too slow for any other use. 660 meg hard drives are nice,
but, like optical disks, a bit too expensive for distribution media!

NeXt should redesign the optical drive to take tiny weeny small disks
that cost only $5, like the cheap small CD's that have come out,
or break down and install a real floppy for distribution purposes.

Doug McDonald