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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Modem usage in applesoft basic (sorry)
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Date: 23 Apr 91 01:40:14 GMT
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In article <1991Apr21.072250.27849@nevada.edu> alfter@nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER) writes:
.In article <14756@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
.>In article <9104200147.AA05353@apple.com> MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET writes:
.>>The Apple II was originally designed to be used WITHOUT drives.  The Mac
.>>can't do a darn thing without'em.
.>	Oh COME on! Didn't the tape drive (i.e. any cassette player) 
.>exist from day 1?
.Umm...I thought it was quite obvious that he was referring to _disk_
.drives.

	Well yeah, he was talking DIRECTLY about disk drives, but it 
seemed his main point was that you needed NO storage media, and I just
pointed out that tape drives were around then.

	To imply that a computer is extremely useful without ANY storage
mechanism just seems silly to me. Yeah people can write small hack programs
to test an algorithm or something, but I would doubt it if anybody reading
this turns on their computer and uses it any significant amount of time
without even booting ProDOS or something. That's using media, so..
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