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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Will the Next sell?
Summary: Taking a lesson from the past?
Keywords: color RAM disk backup software exchange
Message-ID: <802@wet.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 89 06:32:28 GMT
References: <4283@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <21301@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
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In article <21301@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> rlp@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Bob Powell) writes:
>I've been diddling with computers since my first TRS-80 Model I
>back in Oct. 1979.  Remember 4K of RAM, tape (audio cassette) storage,

>Right now, the NeXT doesn't do what I want.

Ok... There's a "microphone" jack on the back of the MegaPixel.
It can't be that hard to hack together something to read from
a cassette tape.  After all, even the "modern" IBM PCs (ca. 1984)
had cassette ports.  There you go--low-cost distribution media,
and no peripherals to buy--EVERYONE has a Walkman(tm).  You don't
really care how long it takes to transfer since you only have to
do it once.

I really amaze myself sometimes.  :-)

					-=EPS=-
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