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From: ram@shukra.Sun.COM (Renu Raman)
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Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
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Date: 14 Oct 88 22:51:45 GMT
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In article <13870@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bkliewer@iuvax.UUCP (Bradley Dyck Kliewer) writes:
>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? 
>
>$50 is awfully expensive media for commercial software distribution when
>a few $1 diskettes are the norm (retail price comparisons, of course).
>The lack of a diskette drive also hampers data exchange with other micros.
>
>Bradley Dyck Kliewer

    Carring around an optical-disk for a few MBs of stuff - Yes.

    But at 256MB - which approximates to ~200 floppies.  200 floppies
    for $50 - or $0.25 is not bad at all.  And remeber - you can have
    all you floppies archived into 1 single disk.   It