Subj : Re: X86S
To   : AKAcastor
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Apr 24 2024 14:35:40

  Re: Re: X86S
  By: AKAcastor to Tenser on Wed Apr 24 2024 01:58 pm

 AK> I think it's a bit of the same idea that led to the removal of floppy disk
 AK> drives from Apple computers, before many people were ready to let them go.
 AK> But now when I look back, I think it's more strange how long mostly-unused
 AK> floppy disk drives kept being installed in PCs. (used maybe for a driver
 AK> install, because PCs weren't forced to move on to a better standard,
 AK> because  the floppy drives stuck around.)

I'm not a big fan of things being removed before their usefulness has passed. Now that I actually stopped using floppy disks years ago, I'm fine with my PC not having a floppy drive.

Nightfox
--- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux
 * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)

.