From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Scouted: Dell follows Apple: Eliminates Floppies
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 21:36:24 +0100

At 12:38 7-2-2003 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:

"You insert it right into the USB port, and your computer reads it just like it would read a floppy drive. The benefit is, you've got much more capacity -- instead of just 1.44 megabytes, at the low end you have 16 megabytes."
Unless of course you are one of those hundreds of thousands of people who still use Windows NT 4.0, which doesn't have USB support...
Apple gave their users the same problem several years ago. We had several hundred (around 5 - 600) floppies in my office that had to be converted to cd. Took an intern days to copy them onto a hard drive, organize and package them for burning. (I still remember her ripping them apart and shredding them to bits when she was done. Ruined a shredder, too.)

Could have cheerfully killed Apple at the time. :(

But... this has happened before with 5.25 floppies, so I guess there's a precedent.

You weren't able to get that memory stick drive working??

Jon

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