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To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (13249)	5/9/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: Mark Palmberg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

I just bought a modem - the software came on a floppy. Why don't consumers insist that software producers release their products on the more reliable, higher-capacity, more durable CD's anyway? The investment in a CD burner would easily be recouped by not having to replace failed or lost diskettes? Better yet, the last modem I installed had an on-line registration feature, whereby the modem dialed a pre-installed toll-free number and registered my product. Send out a modem, either in Mac or Windows config, that'll dial up the company's home page and DOWNLOAD the friggin' software needed to run the hardware. The small program that does the dialing could then be removed (it would come with a user key or something for ID and registration purposes) after the software kit was downloaded to the hard drive. How hard can this be? Then you have NO CD's and NO diskettes; save a copy of the downloaded software on a Zip disk or whatever if you want a backup. Cool. Mark

To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (13249)	5/10/1998 12:22:00 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

You apparently haven't read earlier posts here detailing the rumored USB devices being developed by Apple, and the one announced yesterday by Panasonic and Imation. Yes, there will likely be no standard 1.4MB 3.5" floppy drive for the iMac, but there will be a much larger capacity super floppy (120MB) that is backward compatible with the older 1.4MB floppies. That sounds great! I was just commenting on some people saying floppies were obsolete or others saying college dorms were putting in Ethernet etc. etc. All I was saying was not the whole world had caught up to that point yet. If the price is anything near $A2000 here I might well buy one together with an external floppy to replace my 7100. I don't need expandibility just a reasonably fast machine that doesn't cost too much. A G3 accelerator card costs $A1850 here and wouldn't be as up to date as this. David