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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
Summary: depends on how media (medium?) costs, I guess
Message-ID: <758@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 88 14:18:58 GMT
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Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Ia.
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In article <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>, elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
> One question: Why the hell have a floppy drive when you have a 256MB
> removable erasable optical disk?

I guess it depends.  How much does one of the removable optical disks
cost? (Not a rhetorical question; I really don't know.) If I were a
software house, I wouldn't want to distribute inexpensive software on an
extremely expensive medium. 

		James Jones