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From: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek)
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Subject: Re: LC & SuperDrive??
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Date: 11 Mar 91 23:03:31 GMT
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In article <1991Mar7.142044.23744@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) writes:

>	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...

I don't quite see the reason for the disagreeable tone of this.

Yes, I do see the point.  I did tell the original poster how to add a
second floppy drive to his system.  I'm not aware of any similarly
useful information in your comments.

If you have a hard disk, you can make disk-disk copies without
infinite swapping.  I'm sure you see how.

Even IF it's only $4 (which I doubt), yes, we have reached the point
of diminishing returns.  Fewer and fewer people want a second floppy
drive, because (with a hard disk) it's so seldom useful and
convenient.  I have a second drive I almost never use.  There comes a
point where it isn't worth even $4.

Further flames to /dev/null.