I'm Getting My iMac Together and Taking It On the Road.
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>A few members of the audience gave Mike and J.D. a bit of a hard time over the iMac not having a floppy drive and described how, in their view, that and the lack of a 56K modem were marketing strategy goofs. The Apple guys held their ground.
The arguments are that floppies are yesterday's technology and are dying out and the 33.6K modem is what most of the ISPs support today and will in the near future, i.e. 56K modems are a waste of money at the dead end as its better to have the 100Mbps Ethernet for the future--cable and ADSL (asynchronous digital subscriber line). I think they convinced me.<
>On USB, he assured the audience that there would be every kind of USB peripheral available when the iMac ships in August. Visit the USB web site to see for yourself. This includes floppy drives, scanners, modems, printers, etc. He extolled the virtues of USB being cross-platform, hot swapable, faster than serial and ADB and SCSI-2 ports and supporting up to 127 connected devices. In the Q&A period, it was stated that there will probably not be a USB to SCSI interface but there might be an ethernet to SCSI interface developed by a third party.<
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