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To: IanBruce who wrote (16144)	8/2/1998 9:43:00 AM
From: Phillip C. Lee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

I agree with your assessment on floppy disk based on my long period of time in computer field. Look at Sun Micro system's ultra, Sparc machines, they don't have floppy disk, but a tape drive/CD-ROM. It's the same in IBM, HP and other brands. I believe floppy disk is a thing of the past because of its extremely-limited storage which constrains the process as well as computer security. Most of the data now contains graphics/image or complicated database which may need more than 10 floppy disks and hence it's naturally be installed in either tape or CD-ROM. I barely used floppy as a media to transfter the data, rather, I use FTP or e-mail to send or receive the data internally, or use CD-ROM/tape to get it externally. I believe Apple's attempt will be accepted and its approach is logically reasonable from professional judgement or conventional usage. Phil