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To: PaperChase who wrote (71466)	11/10/1999 4:53:00 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

<<. CPQ is cheap >> Not exactly, all new programs come on cds or by download, file transfers are all email attachments or nic cards. Appl had this same complaint when the Imac first came out, then the sold half a million of them and the floppy disk hue and cry seems to have faded. <<and their machines are slower than the competition.>> Equally as correct as the first statement

To: PaperChase who wrote (71466)	11/10/1999 11:55:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

PaperChase - Wow!! Talk about a guy who just doesn't get it!!! Do you understand at all what "legacy free" means? Driver signing? Reliability enhancements? The iPaq will take any multibay peripheral (that means any of the slide-in hot-pluggable laptop peripherals) including the LS-120, which by the way will read and write standard floppy disks. So if you REALLY want to use floppy disks, you can do so. The $6 floppy you are describing has the unfortunate side effect of requiring the legacy ISA interrupt and port structure that this product is specifically avoiding. Get with the program!