[Gllug] Floppies

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:29:19AM +0100, t.clarke wrote:
> ---------------------------------------
> Message from:-
> Tim Clarke  (tim at seacon.co.uk)
> Seacon Holdings plc Group, London, U.K.
> Telephone: +44 (0)1474 320000
>       Fax: +44 (0)1474 329946
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> My ha'penny worth:
> 
> Floppies are great for moving round small amounts of data very cheaply
> (ie free, since I have so many kicking around from various sources)
> The drives cost next to nothing too !
> 
> Long live the floppy, at least until something better and still cheap comes
> along to replace it !

Therein lies the problem: cheap == not enough profit for the vendors.

-- 
Alain Williams

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