Death of the Floppy Drive

[Tim Collier]

I admire all of you who are still using older Macs for daily work.  I, 
myself, have a beige G3 266 at work running OS X 10.2.6 and OS 9.2.2.  
When using OS X, the internal floppy does not work.  OS X does not 
support floppy drives except for external USB drives.  This has been 
widely known and published on Apple's site since the introduction of OS 
X.
Friends, Apple continues to bring us into the future.  Is it practical 
to try to copy files which can often exceed 1.4 megabytes using an 
outdated floppy disk?  Apple has solved this by equipping all of it's 
modern Macs with a CD-RW drive.
The floppy drive is just as much a legacy device as 300 bps modem.  
Though this may not be to your liking, it is a fact.  I cheer at the 
demise of the floppy and bless my iMac every day for it's lack of one.  
The lack of a floppy drive is yet another fine improvement that 
distinguishes my Mac from a PC.
Following the thread, 'No floppy in Jaguar', I see that many of you do 
not feel that same and actually bash Apple for not supporting the 
floppy.  You all sound like a bunch of DOS users complaining about 
Windows.  The future is now!  Save your pennies and buy a modern Mac.
On Apr 23, 2004, at 3:56 PM, Andrew wrote:

I see, it's the same sort of "improvement" that wouldn't allow me to 
use the Mac OS setup assistant on my 14" monitor after installing OSX. 
Forcing us to buy more recent hardware. Oh well, I'll boot from OS9 to 
accept articles from that floppy user once a month - at least I know 
not to waste any more time trying to figure it out.

Thanks folks,
Andrew
Exterminate all rational thought.

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