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To: soup who wrote (14015)	5/24/1998 8:59:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Soup, I suppose you can get a friend to download floppies to you. Like Mark Twain, rumors of the death of whom were overstated, the 3.5" floppy will live on for a while. Possibly a parellel Imation?floppy blend will emerge. But I have to feel that people willw ant to save text files and other work on floppies for a while yet. Does it have a CDROM drive? If so next option is a CD writer that will write to the one time and the rewritable CDs. I would buy that. Bill

To: soup who wrote (14015)	5/24/1998 9:44:00 PM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

This reminds me of a late sixties TV cartoon called "Top Cat" from Hanna Barbera, about a gang of Italian cat mafiosi. In one episode a young fellow from the gang is excited about a trip to Hawaii. The others ask him for details, and he says that he entered a contest with a ticket to Hawaii price. The leader of the gang tells him to get real and that the chances of winning are infinitesimal and gives him a rap. Humbled, the young fellow asks: should I return the prize then? 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 Well, all of the local ISPs here support 56K, but: should I return my 56k modem then?

To: soup who wrote (14015)	5/25/1998 8:36:00 AM
From: Linda Kaplan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

Well, on Saturday I was working in an office that has several Macs. The SAM software was on floppy. The software for the G3 upgrade card from Newer Technology for the 7100/66 upgrade came on floppy. Word came on floppies (lots of them). Filemaker 4.0 came on CD-ROM and the latest Norton Utilities. That came on CD-ROM. So there are still plenty of times that floppies drives are needed. Also important, many offices keep some older Macs. This one still has two SE/30's. When I used to do more Mac Consulting I found a lot of offices kept some really old Macs in operation. A lot of places that would surprise you because they were pretty big names. Many, many had Plusses and SE's and SE/30's in their offices. So those machines need floppy disks for installation, or an external CD-ROM drive has to be provided. Speaking of Norton Utilities, I noticed that it doesn't work on the Extended HFS filing system. Is there anything that does work to keep it cleaned up other than Disk First Aid? Linda