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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Modem usage in applesoft basic (sorry)
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.225831.21648@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 20 Apr 91 22:58:31 GMT
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unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:

>	You -have- to have some way of saving stuff. It's completely 
>ridiculous saying a computer was made to be used with no drives. Not being
>able to save stuff almost totally removes the usefulness of a computer.

Depends on what you do with it. If you're using a term program you only need
to save downloads.

If you just want to whip up a memo and print it, all you need is a printer.
Sure, it's saving to hard copy, but it isn't a disk drive.

If you just need some calculations that are easier to do on the computer than
on a calculator or a graph for interpretation, you don't really need to save
those either.

What I'm getting at is that we've been using disks for so long we forget how
much 'little work' really doesn't depend on them except to load the software.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu