Hi,
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What is it with this Anti-Floppy Movement? I know they're woefully outdated and rather unreliable compared to modern media, but still...
Isn't the point of having an old Mac (sometimes, at least) to have an old-fashioned floppy drive which can read one's old and long forgotten 400k/800k disks?
Zip is fine and good, but I like having the floppy around because, to me, it adds to the charm of having an old Mac (and yes, that includes all its weaknesses as well; people likely had to deal with all those from the moment the first floppy drives were invented).
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Hacking an internal Zip drive into a machine which otherwise has no space for one is intriguing (and can be quite useful), so I'm not against it at all!
Just keep the floppy drive if there's no reason not to!!
To each his/her own, I suppose...
c
p.s. I'm not trying to be totally zealous about this, so if anyone has a very sound and foolproof reason for not having floppies, I'll listen
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What is it with this Anti-Floppy Movement? I know they're woefully outdated and rather unreliable compared to modern media, but still...
Isn't the point of having an old Mac (sometimes, at least) to have an old-fashioned floppy drive which can read one's old and long forgotten 400k/800k disks?
Zip is fine and good, but I like having the floppy around because, to me, it adds to the charm of having an old Mac (and yes, that includes all its weaknesses as well; people likely had to deal with all those from the moment the first floppy drives were invented).
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Hacking an internal Zip drive into a machine which otherwise has no space for one is intriguing (and can be quite useful), so I'm not against it at all!
Just keep the floppy drive if there's no reason not to!!
To each his/her own, I suppose...
c
p.s. I'm not trying to be totally zealous about this, so if anyone has a very sound and foolproof reason for not having floppies, I'll listen