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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: A good 'personal' computer?
Message-ID: <5617@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 89 19:41:02 GMT
References: <21516@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
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In article <21516@cup.portal.com> Jeff_A_Scott@cup.portal.com writes:
}... Has anyone announced a floppy drive?

The NeXT rep I talked to said someone had one in the works.  I forget who.
Given the relatively open architecture (four slots is better than none)
I'd expect a lot of 3rd party multi-function cards once the ball gets
rolling.  Even IBM had to buck that reality.  PS/2 cards are just
beginning to be available in significant quantity.

}Why is
}there no comp.sources.next or comp.binaries.next ( the Amiga crowd seems
}to do quite nicely for sources and binaries.)

Give it time.  For now, comp.sources.unix should be sufficient.

}Any word on a 3'rd party PC-compatible emulator?

None yet, but the rep said she'd certainly expect one if there was enough
demand.

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