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From: asd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: The Future of the Apple II, and misc. questions
Message-ID: <1211@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 89 16:05:02 GMT
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Reply-To: asd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
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In article <618@orbit.UUCP> shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley) writes:
>asd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
>>6) TO KEITH OR WHOEVER AT APPLE:  Drop the old 800K line of 3.5 drives and
>>   start cranking out those 1.44M drives!!!!!  I WANT ONE!!!!  System disk
>I for one would be quite upset if Apple decided to drop the 800K drive just so
>they could fit more fonts on the SYSTEM.DISK.

Well, you obviously don't know what this new drive can do, so here's a
quick summary:

	1.44M, 800K, 400K? - Mac currently
	MS-DOS (1.44M & 720K I think, maybe just 1.44M)
	GS/OS

All these formats (did I miss any, anyone?) the drive can read at least.  As
for formatting, I don't know about that (except 1.44M).  Why wouldn't anybody
not want the increased storage?  With 1.44M most of if not all of AWGS could
be put on one disk (just the program and dictionaries).  Any commercial
package that currently uses 2 or more disks, could be stuck on fewer disks
also.  And if Apple offered a upgrade policy, then folks wouldn't have to
worry about being left out on new software being offered on 1.44M disks.
Heck, I've also heard of 4M and even remember seeing an article in Personal
Computing about a drive that could do a lot more than that I believe.  Why
produce a 800K drives when there's other drives (at least the 1.44M) that can
work with the 800K disks?  Not to mention MS-DOS, Mac software.  Doesn't this
just scream out "MS-DOS and Mac FST's with GS/OS"?  Hasn't that been something
folks have been looking for?  Personally, I'd like to be able to fit a few
more fonts on my SYSTEM.DISK also.

kareth.