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From: gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor)
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Subject: Re: LC & SuperDrive??
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.142044.23744@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 14:20:44 GMT
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In article <16693@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
>In article <1991Feb26.183753.27138@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) writes:
>
>>	However, I'll still assert that a port for an external floppy
>>shouldn't have been excluded from the LC...
>
>Sorry, I'll disagree on this one.
>
> [discusses plummeting price of hard drives]

	What's your point?  That one ought to buy a hard drive?  I'd
say so, too.  I'd rather add another hard drive to my system than
another floppy.

>However, it's impossible to second-guess other people's needs, so

	Exactly.  Then why lock people out of using a second floppy
drive in the interest of saving all of $4 in design?

>perhaps you do have a use for a second floppy drive that a hard drive
>won't meet.  In that case, take a look at the Infinity TurboFloppy
>1.4, listed in the MacWarehouse catalog for $359; it's an external
>floppy drive that plugs into your SCSI port.

	You don't quite see the point, do you?  People ought to have
the option of having a second floppy drive.  They may want to do
disk-disk copies without infinite swapping.  They may simply find it
(-gasp-) useful and convenient.  In any case, if we're only trimming
$4 off the design cost, by excluding an external port, why cut it out?
There -is- such a thing as the point of diminishing returns...

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