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To: FBarron who wrote (6960)	1/31/1999 11:29:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10072

At Apple, the floppy is officially dead. All new iMacs, PowerMac G3's, and upcoming Powerbooks have no standard floppy drive. What has taken its place? Well, much to the dismay of Iomaniacs, its not the Zip drive. Steve Jobs has willed it that every single new Apple product now comes standard with Ethernet. That's right. A blazing fast Ethernet. Even the upcoming Powerbooks (reportedly will ship in translucent cases as well) will have Ethernet Standard. Options are a floppy, a Superdisc, A Zip, and reportedly the upcoming 2.2 Gig Orb drive. In almost every facility I'm in, it is a great advantage to be able to plug right into the Ethernet and access anything you need at will. No lost Zip discs. No broken or faulty Zip discs or drives. No Click of Death. No guest programs or extension conflicts with other drivers. Just pure, fast, Ethernet bliss. Thank you, Steve Jobs. Thank you for forcing the computer industry forward, and dumping the floppy drive in exchange for Ethernet.