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From: minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT Religion
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.220004.25372@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 90 22:00:04 GMT
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Organization: Oklahoma State University
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|>    I don't think the price of ODs can EVER drop enough to completely replace
|>    floppy disks. If I have something that I want to send to a few friends,
|>    I'm quite willing to put it on floppies (cost $0.30 to $1.00 each) and send
|>    it off to them. [...]
|> 
| How about Digital Audio Tape?  They're about to hit the music
| industry.  They should drop in price after a few million DAT cassettes
| of Van Halen are sold.  Each tape holds about a gigabyte of data.  I
| would say that they will be the perfect medium for software
| distribution in another year. 

  But floppies fit nicely into envelopes... For up to a meg or so, floppies
would stil be the way to go. Also, floppies are a bit better for random access.
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|_    /| | Robert Minich            |
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