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From: c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: drop the floppy port? (was: 16Mhz Mac Classic?)
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Date: 18 Dec 90 13:57:36 GMT
References: <31031@<1990Dec10>> <77800073@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <11561@goofy.Apple.COM> <1990Dec18.074234.19590@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
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You would need at least one disk drive to make the workstation usable by
a client.  Most people I know of keep their work on floppies, and most
servers I know of are read-only, i.e. they don't have workspaces for people's
files on them.
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