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To: kjude who wrote (3248)	11/5/1998 3:35:00 AM
From: Reseller	Respond to of 10072

Wait a minute they're dropping the 1.44 floppy !! pcworld.com Sony's and Imation's drives are going to be backward compatible to nothing. This is what the wise know. Thanks for posting the info. Regards Reseller

To: kjude who wrote (3248)	11/5/1998 10:42:00 AM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 10072

kjude, the article says > Floppy drives and parallel port connections will be gone by the second half of 2001, if Intel has its way. In their place would be a combination of USB ports and yet be developed "Super I/O" ports that would accommodate various peripherals. The floppy drive, which was already abandoned in Apple's iMac system, would be replaced by a higher capacity removable media such as Iomega Zip or Imation's LS-120 SuperDrive, which reads traditional 3.5-inch disks as well as 120MB media.< Yihaaa! Gottfried