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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: 20 Meg floppies
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Date: 3 May 91 17:01:50 GMT
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In article <!53gvv@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes:


   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!!!

How are people backing up their disks?  I heard a few complaints from
people who considered buying a NeXT that one must buy a tape drive in
order to do this in a reasonble manner.  Most people aren't going to
want to spend $$$ a piece for two different pieces of hardware.  I
guess that NeXT could offer both, but shipping the NeXTs with 20MB
floppies would be a definite plus.  Since other computer companies are
almost sure to use them, 20MB floppies could make transfering files
among machines easier.

-Mike