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From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: backup of hard disk
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Date: 11 Nov 90 17:33:05 GMT
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In <61300044@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

>Believe it or not, this is realistic to do.  I back up an 80Mb Mac
>disk with 800K floppies.  It's a royal drag to stuff 70 floppies in
>the machine (I have about 57Mb in use), but was not too bad putting 30
>floppies in, when the machine was young.

>I have always believed in some formula for personal computers --

>(1) Floppy drive should be as large as main memory (NeXT did all they
>    could to achieve this, given current standards).

Actually, they COULD have gone with Insight's new 20Mb floppy 3.5 inch
drive!  Yeah, the same type of floppies you use in your regular
drives, except a special coating I believe, AND compatible with
existing drives too, if memory serves.  Now THAT would have been doing
all they could to acheive that standard, as well as giving us a great,
cheap, large distribution medium!

-k