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To: Ken Marcus who wrote (54374)	5/9/1998 5:35:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (3) of 58324

>3. Virtually no external market available to them; there is no reason to buy an external device that also reads floppies when computers already have them built in.<< I see you just recently landed on your trip back from Mars. Since you obviously didn't hear about this, Apple is introducing the iMac this Summer, a low-cost, high-fashion desktop computer with ONLY a CD-Rom drive. They are going to sell a bunch of these, and none of them have ANY kind of removable storage. No floppy. No Zip. No SCSI. No serial. No parallel. Just USB, ethernet, modem, and Infra-red. The iMac keyboard is a USB hub. apple.com If you scan the Apple newsgroups, people are worried about the lack of a floppy drive. They are not worried about a Zip drive. in fact, the LS-120 has gained new prominence in all of this. But a bigger, better LS-120 Superdisc-- is the Sony HiFi. And, it is due to come out right around when iMac ships. Imation yesterday announced as well that they have a USB Superdisc shipping at that time. Iomega has been caught with its pants down. The argument that LS-120 had an edge in laptops due to its floppy compatibility now is the case for the desktop as well, thanks to iMac.

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