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From: braner@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: IBM high dense (ity) drives
Message-ID: <1547@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Sun, 28-Jun-87 15:32:57 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 28 15:32:57 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Jun-87 01:59:42 EDT
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Reply-To: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Summary: I disagree

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While I also can feel the grief of too-fast technology introduction, and
'me too' not a great fan of IBM, I still disagree with those calling on us
to suffer with small floppies for too long.  Hard disks are fine for many
things but even 20 Megs get filled up too quickly and current-day hard
disks are very fragile.  I would much prefer large-capacity, high-speed,
robust REMOVABLE media.  The new micro-Bernoullies hold great promise (at
a very high price as yet), and any advancement in floppies (to 1.4 Megs and
beyond) is very welcome with me.  I agree that floppies are a means of
data transfer - and that may call for having a mixture of drive types on
one machine and/or making the bigger drives compatible with smaller ones
for both reading and writing (as the 1.4Meg ones reportedly are).

- Moshe Braner

[I call the 720K floppy 'small' when 18 months ago I used 140K floppies?]

[One more BASF disk went bad on me yesterday.
 A few more and they'll be all gone...]