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To: rhet0ric who wrote (14059)	5/26/1998 4:29:00 PM
From: Dylan	Respond to of 213177

A couple of years ago, CompUsa gave away up to 300 free floppies with a mail in rebate. The cost was only the tax, and I now have 300 extra floppies. I've used about 50 of them, but whenever someone in the lab needs a floppy, they take one as I have little use for them since it can only store such small files. My research typically involves data files that don't even fit on zip disks even when I tar and zip them.... all of the computers in our lab are connected through a local network which allows seamless transfer between them all (four Wintels and 1 Mac), so a floppy is rarely used for anything. With direct connections (T3, ISDN, etc.), it is much faster to transfer something over a network than to a floppy. In two years, almost nobody will use a modem or a floppy drive. -Dylan