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From: mrush@ecst.csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Diagram For Students and Faculty/Staff
Summary: What FORMAT are the Floppies?
Keywords: MS-DOG 1.44 2.88
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.083336.16882@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 91 08:33:36 GMT
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In article <6986@mace.cc.purdue.edu> asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
>In <1991Mar12.071653.7599@ecst.csuchico.edu> mrush@ecst.csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush) writes:
>
>>	However, when you send your $25 or $75 what do you get back?  An Optical
>>Disk (an outrageous bargain :-), a couple floppies (bummer for those of us with
>>stock Cubes), a personalized ftp account from which to get the program..
>
>It comes on floppies.  If you are a student, you can't just call and

	Ok, since it appears that the NeXT floppy drive will handle 1.44 and
2.88 MB diskettes, and it will handle NeXT and MS-DOG formats...

	What density and what format are they in?

	I'm not trying to be obnoxious here, or anything, but distribution media
and format is a significant issue for the NeXT, now.  And through wonderous
marketting and design considerations, there is NO format that EVERYONE is
GUARANTEED to be able to use!
	C'mon NeXT, didn't ANYBODY consider that people might want to run
software that didn't come INSTALLED on their machine when they bought it?

	Heck, this package (especially at this price) is really tempting (even
though I'm using my School's NeXT), but unless it comes on 1.44 Mb MS-DOG
diskettes I'm screwed!

	Ok, I'll go climb back under my small, stylishly BLACK stone now.

	-- C P.
	mrush@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu