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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: The Future of the Apple II, and misc. questions
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Date: 8 Feb 89 22:25:04 GMT
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asd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
>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:

I know what formats it supports.  I wasn't looking at it from a disk format
point of view.  Rather, my point is that 800K drives shouldn't be completely
removed (support-wise, anyway) from the market, since not everyone has the
money for one of those drives.

I'm just not a fan of, "I can afford it and I want it, so everyone else should
have it and then we can get rid of the OLD THING!"

But hey, if dropping the 800K drives doesn't mean dropping the drivers
(including any permutations in the future of the OS), I have no problem with
dropping the product itself.

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