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To: Captain Jack who wrote (71471)	11/10/1999 6:05:00 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

.... For taking files back and forth from work it makes things easy Trust me on this one Jack, I am not saying you should do this, but this is the way it will be done. Instead of copying the file to a floppy, You send yourself an email a work. In the upper left hand corner of you email you will see "do you want to attach file? you say yes, clic on the file and then clic on send. When you get to work, you pick of your mail and clic on "detach" and put the file where ever you want. now you have three copies, one on your home machine, one on the office machine and one on the server. This is almost the Only way to do it if the file is bigger that 1.4 megs. Say what am I talking about, you don't work!! .....and for saving stuff not needed or wanted on the hard dr a floppy is nice,,, You could leave the file on the server. But the smallest hard disk you can get today is 4.3 Gigabits (most popular size) thats a lot of floppies. Back up is done (if you want to) by a sort of what I call scrap house RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks). keep your old computer, duplicate the files you want to protect on both machine by email nic OR cdw. (no tape, cdw is 640 megs) ......but how many business do you know using Apple?? Businesses don't use appl. No software, been the same for 10 years. Unless your business is the heartsey flowersee type. This is the future.

To: Captain Jack who wrote (71471)	11/10/1999 7:15:00 PM
From: trouthead	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

I have a floppy drive. I never use it anymore. I have a stack of 200 floppy disks. I never use them anymore. I have DSL. I use it all the time. The floppy is dead. jb

To: Captain Jack who wrote (71471)	11/11/1999 12:07:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Duke, Jack, et. al. - CPQ recently standardized their laptop hot swappable devices, so that the CD-ROM, DVD, removable hard drive and LS120 drive are all interchangable across the product range. Now they have added that support to this device. The LS120 will read and write standard floppy drives (if you really want to, I have not used a floppy in a long time). It will also read-write a floppy-sized 120MB thingie which is a more useful storage size in today's bloatware world. So unlike the iMac, this product can accept the devices you probably already have for your CPQ laptop for that occasional floppy, or to read CDs or DVDs. The removable 6GB hard disk is a pretty handy way to move big data, like say a photo archive or a complete system image. The only similarity I can see with the iMac is the use of USB for general-purpose connectivity, and the small size. Aside from that it is a much more carefully engineered product, designed for a business environment, allows you to use the monitor of your choice (or maybe the one you already have), and is less than half the Imac cost.