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To: Slide Rule who wrote (16153)	8/2/1998 9:28:00 PM
From: John O'Neill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

Onr is also limited to the 15" monitor..once again, Apple has tried to control all the choices...Sales will be strong at first, If Apple can ramp up, but once all Mac enthusiasts have bought, sales will dump and adious amigos.

To: Slide Rule who wrote (16153)	8/2/1998 10:02:00 PM
From: Eric Yang	Respond to of 213182

I didn't want to become part of this floppy debate but someone asked me via email to post this to the board so here goes: Hi Eric, I don't have an SI account, but maybe you could pass this tidbits to the list. Actually Steve Jobs hate floppy. Once the Apple engineers was talking to a Sony engineer, but in a sudden SJ show up, the Apple engineers are so scared that they have to hide the Sony engineer under a table! Of course, eventually they have convince SJ and the Macintosh got it's 3.5" floppy. Fred iMac was announced nearly 3 months ago, I can't believe we're still debating about floppies. Got small files to transfer? Send it by email, get an Imation superdisk, buy a USB floppy drive from Newer Technology, use your photographic memory, use a piece of paper and pencil and hand copy it, or just lug the whole damn iMac to your destination. Crazy Coyote who took the day off from chasing the Road-Runner suggested that we put a few giant mirrors on geo-synchronous satellites (I'm sure Motorola can spare a few defective ones from its Iridium project) so you can aim at it with your iMac, beam the file using the IR port. That should give you just enough time run to the local Kinko's and "catch" the beam after it has been bounced around the oith a few times. If you can't run that fast, Crazy coyote suggest a pair of rocket powered roller skates from ACME Inc. I'm just glad that we don't have to argue about having 56K modems anymore. Eric words of wisdom: "What is a floppy?" (Kurt Starnes, 1998)

To: Slide Rule who wrote (16153)	8/3/1998 1:55:00 AM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Respond to of 213182

If you lose the hard drive or crash the system, you probably cannot see a network -- so repairs won't come that way. Might not be too bad if you're on a network with decent support, but otherwise there would be no recourse but to lug the Mac off to some shop. Over the years I've had a number of these situations, and an emergency floppy always got me going again. Would feel at risk without one. Perhaps you haven't used recent versions of Norton Utilities, but it comes with a bootable CD-ROM for just such use. I'm guessing that the next version of NUM will be a CD-ROM that also supports the iMac. TechTool Pro may also come with one of these CD-ROMs, but I'm not sure since I don't own it. Of course, you can always boot from the iMac system CD-ROM as well, and I'm sure it will have at least Apple's own Disk Tools repair utility on it.