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To: Reseller who wrote (2389)	10/20/1998 1:44:00 AM
From: Philip J. Davis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

Question: For anyone that might be thinking that 3 1/2" floppy drives will be used and included in new PC's for many years to come because of the plethora of cheap 3 1/2" floppy disks out there in the world, keep this question in mind: Once OEM PC manufacturers stopped including 5 1/4" floppy drives in new systems, how long was it before you decided to either take the drive out of your system, and/or stop using it altogether? Remember that for a time, both 3 1/2" and 5 1/4" floppy drives were included as standard in new PC's. I remember calling up my old college professor a few years ago, and asked him whether he would like it if I "donated" my stash of 5 1/4" floppies, never mind that they still worked perfectly, he said "No thanks". I had better hurry up and donate my 3 1/2" floppies while I still can <G>. regards, Philip

To: Reseller who wrote (2389)	10/20/1998 12:40:00 PM
From: AreWeThereYet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Philip and Reseller >> Andy, I can't believe that a progressive person as yourself would suggest that there is such a compelling need for the 1.44 floppy. You truly must know better. << I didn't say that. I just said that floppy is still a must for now. There is no question that it is still the ideal media for small data/program transfer and driver distribution. Not all machine has net access, especially notebooks or portable but almost all has a floppy. Before you say CD is the ideal media for that purpose, ask yourself how many user has the ability to roll out a bunch of CDs from a gold CD? Ask youself how many people has a CDR/CDRW? I love my CDRW but I will never use it to distribute small data/programs and patches, give me a break! How many time I have to repeat and repeat again??? CDR/CDRW and Zip/LS120/HiFD and SparQ/Jaz/Orb are designed for different purpose and should not compare them together. aC