Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usenet From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Subject: Re: 20 Meg floppies Message-ID: Nntp-Posting-Host: eclipse.its.rpi.edu References: Date: 3 May 91 16:39:13 GMT Lines: 23 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > > ...(quoted comments on 20 meg floppies & phase-changed ODs)... > > There was in an article in Byte Magazine last fall. We should be > hearing more about the drives by this summer. They sound like they > should satify software distribution problems for 10 years or so. And > let's not forget the problem of backuping up the NeXT. You aren't > going to do that on a CD-ROM. While I'd love to have larger capacity floppies, I still prefer CD-ROM as a distribution medium. I have had drive problems (or operator error...) wipe out a floppy disk that I was installing from. I'd much rather have large products distributed on a medium that is permanent. And CDs only cost $2-$3 to punch out (assuming you need a few thousand copies), while these new capacity floppy drives are going to be more expensive than that. I'd really really like to have 20 meg (or larger) floppies too, of course!!! - - - - - - - - Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@rpi.edu or gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA