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To: RX4PROFIT who wrote (13138)	5/8/1998 10:49:00 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

c\|net article: Retailers think iMac will sell and steal PC customers. I would only see the lack of a floppy as a problem. It'll probably have 56k modem when actually released in August. This is what an "Apple spokesman" had to say: "Apple will not be offering a floppy disk drive configuration or external floppy disk drive for iMac. The floppy served three purposes--first, as a software distribution medium; Today all software comes on CD-ROMs, I just bought a modem - the software came on a floppy. second, as a medium to back up your disk; and disks have become way too large to back up with floppies true and third, as 'sneakernet' for moving files around between different computers. . 'Sneakernet' has been replaced by the Internet (and e-mail) to transfer files between different computers. I still do this on a daily basis to transfer files from my home computer to work. Using the internet to do it means paying a phone call (27 Aussie cents fixed charge), paying online time (there are no use as much as you can for fixed fee here in Australia), loading up fetch, or Navigator for E-mail attachment, dialing up my ISP and finally doing the transfer. A floppy is cheaper and quicker. David