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Dell is copying Apple, again...

Re: Actually

Originally posted by dantec
And to someone in who replied earlier: The zip is more expensive because it can hold 100mb (DUH!) and the diskette can only hold 2 mb! :rolleyes:
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I believe that if you had understood the post (best not to ask too much of the mere average citizen of the US) you would have noticed that the items being transfered were documents or restricted numbers of small files sized images. Now, would you pay the costs for a zip disk, which, I might add, can hold up to 250Mb or 100Mb if you go cheap or have older tech, so that you can take your Word document across the room.

I don't think some of you people actually see the issue. All new medias are VERY slow in comparison to the good ol' floppy for small sized files. I will say it again, I am all for removing floppies but every once in a while I find a good use for one. I have been in many a situation where I have to transfer between 2 computers that are not networked and possibly not on the internet and moving a floppy for a small file is swift and does not require a call to an ISP (keeping in mind that any time I get in a situation like this the end computer is never on broadband and has to be "dialed-up".
 
Re: karateka

Originally posted by mischief
Presumably, if it was written for the Mac ][ it'd be a fairly simple program. Perhaps there's a recompile that'd make it useable. Any idea what which language it's in? Swahili?
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I have no clue....but I do have a copy of Photoshop 1.0.7....surprisingly it crashes my G4....
 
Re: Dell is copying Apple, again...

Originally posted by G4scott
I have found another case in which Dell is trying to be more like Apple :mad: .

Apple killed the floppy drive with the introduction of the iMac. The iMac sold millions, and now Mike Dell wants a piece of the pie.

His attempt is not to announce a discontinuation of the floppy drive, but rather put cheap ones into his computers, so they break down, and they loose their usefulness.

An example of this is at my high school, which is full of dell's. A new computer lab full of new Dells (they're small, black, don't have PCI, and they all have win2k) has been plagued by floppy drive failure. Every, and I mean EVERY floppy drive in that room has bit the bullet.

To prove that it's not just an isolated case of misuse of floppy drives (tons of idiots use those computers every day), the floppy drives in the Dells at a special school (the IB school, you know, with the smart people) have also broken down.

Although Michael Dell may be trying to phase out floppy drives for Dell, he is doing a poor job at it, because networking sucks, so you can't move files around at my school, unless you use slow and limited e-mail.

I rest my case. Are these failures coincidences or just random acts of floppy drive failure? Is Dell trying to follow Apple's smart move in killing the floppy? Decide for yourself, and post away!
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OK, so maybe floppies aren't that bad...

Allright, I'll admit it

I...

Still...

Use...

FLOPPIES!!!!!!!!!!

there, I said it.

The only reason I use them is for ESD's for win 95&98 in my A+ computer class. It's funny, though, because I edited the autoexec.bat (either that or config.sys) file to say that that dos sucks and that everyone should buy a Mac.:D

Also, the teacher of this pee cee class says that Macs are better than pee-cee's. She just says that there's money in repairing the millions of crappy peecees built.
 
Floppies and the Mac

For those of us on this planet a little longer, the original mac only had one floppy (which was a pain to copy - swap, swap,swap,swap........) and only later did IBM come out with a "fixed disk" a la Hard Drive later. If I recall the original mac had a 400K as in kilobyte floppy to boot off of. Alot of the OS stuff was in ROM so you could have enough disk space for your program some data and the OS. Those were the days.
Then the SE came out with TWO floppies - man we were in heaven.

Of course the floppies were not 'floppies' like the original 5 1/4 or even the 8" of the old Tandy/Radio Shack computers. Apple started the Mac with the hard sony 3 1/2 dying out today.

Apple was also innovative with the iMac in that it was one of the first production legacy-free systems i.e. no serial ports or printer ports - all USB and FireWire plug and play - something often not noticed.
 
Floppy smoppy...

We just opened and Internet cafe in downtown Circular Quay (the harbour part of Sydney) and most of the computers are G4 towers or iMacs (not new ones unfortunately) and about 4 PCs... and guess what we took the floppys out of them to help prevent viral infection by malicious users!:mad:

Surprisingly no one has asked for one... :D
 
I have Elite on a 5 inch floppy.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to get it for the mac?

Dell make rubbish PCs even by PC standards. I will take your word about the floppy drives, but if you open a mass produced PC up and see the crap they put in it for thermal paste and then you see the tiny heatsink and fan.. you start to worry.
 
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