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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu ([bob, mon])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 3.5" drives (was Re: firsdt PC)
Message-ID: <6551@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 88 04:28:52 GMT
References: <3a92fb2f.44e6@apollo.uucp>
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP ([bob, mon])
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In article <3a92fb2f.44e6@apollo.uucp> nelson_p@apollo.uucp writes:
>
>  I was toying with the idea of getting this system with only a 3.5"
>  floppy (and the 20 Meg drive) and forgetting about a 5.25" drive.
>  I'm not really interested in 'shareware' and games, which seem 
>  like the main things not yet available on 3.5".  Is 3.5" the 
>  wave of the future or do people still regard it a just a marketing 
>  experiment at this point?
>
>                                         --Peter Nelson

I will move to 3.5" as fast as my little wallet will let me (not very fast :-(
and I expect many others to as well.  Case in point: I recommended a new
word-proc/computer for an academic office recently.  The most computer-
literate person in this office owns a laptop which wants to trade disks
with other machines.  The laptop has only 3.5" drives.  I expect that others
in this office will get personal laptops sooner or later; I'm quite sure that
whatever machine they choose (10:1 odds on Z-181) will have 3.5" drives.  So
the office machine necessarily was spec'ed with a 3.5" drive.  In fact, it
also has a 5.25" drive (plus a HD), and serves as a bridge between all the
machines in the office.