On 8 Feb 2003 at 23:13, Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote: > > >http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/02/07/dell.floppydisks.reut/index. > >html > > > >Dell saying bye to floppy disk drives > >Excerpt: > >AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) -- In what may be the wave of the future, > >Dell Computer said goodbye to the past on Thursday when it announced > >it would stop making floppy disk drives standard equipment on its > >higher end desktop personal computers. > > > >Austin, Texas-based Dell, the No. 2 personal computer maker, said > >floppy drives had been overtaken by technologies offering greater > >storage capacity and would become an option on its Dimension 8250 > >models. > > > >Other Dell models may lose the floppy by end of the year, depending > >on customer response, Dell spokesman Lionel Menchaca said. > > I am not surprised. > > For the last couple of years, many of my clients have bought products > by Dell. I have noticed a distinct and annoying tendency in many of > their models, coming from whatever brand of Floppy Drives they pack in > their system, to seriously damage beyond repair after a couple of > years of use. It usually starts by the drives "eating" the disks. > Eventually, the drives stop reading disks altogether. > > Makes you wonder...
That's just cheap drives. I still have about thirty of those in storage. Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
