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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
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- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 15 Jan 96 13:42:28 +0500
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- On or about 14-Jan-96 18:54:29 Ben Hutchings typed the following words about
- "Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!". My reply is thus...
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- BH> On 13 Jan 1996, gcaine wrote:
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- >> > Theres also PD software. (Yep I know Urban, Fred et al do a great
- >> >job, but the CD's are months apart, and some freely distributable
- >> >software is updated weekly. (Hmm must be due for another version of MC
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- >> I wonder what a key would cost if it had to come on zip disk.
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- BH> Yes, we need a cheap medium which can be given away without having to
- BH> count the cost, and which anyone can master. Zip fails on the former
- BH> count, and CD-ROMs fail on the latter. There was talk a few years back of
- BH> 20M "superfloppies", the drives for which would have a single slot for
- BH> identically sized HD and superfloppy disks. What became of this?
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- Iomega is going to release 25meg ZIP disks.
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