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From: jfr@locus.com (Jon Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 16Mhz Mac Classic?
Message-ID: <20468@oolong.la.locus.com>
Date: 11 Dec 90 15:11:47 GMT
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In article <7774@hub.ucsb.edu> 6500erik@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Erik Adams) writes:
>
>Personally, I use only the internal and the external floppy drives
>on my 512ke, and I do it quite contentedly.  I persist in thinking
>that while a hard-disk is fast becoming a necessity (I will have
>one soon, too), it is not yet.  If you don't feel the need to be
>on "the bleeding edge" of technology, floppies are fine.
>

Jeez, <blink> <blink> am I dreaming?  Hard disks the "bleeding edge of
technology"???  This from a Mac user (and a Usenet user no less)???
Maybe the Corvus (remember that one) 5megabyte drive for $3995 in 1981
was bleeding edge (although it was reliable) or the Syquest 10Mb 
removable in 1985... These days, bleeding edge is 600Mb optical
eraseable rewritables... 1.2Gb SCSIs... but a 40Mb Seagate???? NO WAY!!!
THIS IS A NECESSITY!!!! If you ain't used a hard drive on a Mac, you
ain't used a Mac... trust me...
 
PS: Sorry for the flames... I couldn't help myself...

Jon Rosen