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From: ech@poseidon.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NeXT's BIG 3.5" mistake.
Message-ID: <543@poseidon.ATT.COM>
Date: 22 Oct 88 15:50:02 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lincroft, NJ
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>The NeXT machine does not have any sort of floppy drive, and I doubt it ever
> will.  You're right that you want to be able to share
>programs, files, data, etc. on a medium that doesn't cost $50...

Be serious: if there's a market for one, somebody will sell one.  I do agree
that, on campus, the network is clearly the way to exchange software.  It's
also too expensive to give away the optifloppy (I like that word too!) media.

Also on campus, even without a net, that just means that YOUR optifloppy,
mine, and a NeXT have to share the same space for 5 minutes.  With 8Mb of
RAM, we won't even have to swap floppies often.

Assuming NeXT survives -- and Steve&Co have my best wishes -- by the time
NeXT leaves the campus, there'll be 3.5" drives.

=Ned=