On Oct 23, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Macs R We wrote: > > On Oct 23, 2010, at 7:18 AM, Arno Hautala wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 01:58, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Oct 22, 2010, at 10:50 AM, objectwerks inc wrote: >>> >>>> And is Apple proposing to do away with this? NO. Apple is adding in new >>>> options. >>> >>> Kinda like when they added the CD drive, but still kept the floppy drive. >>> >>> Oh, wait... >> >> You mean the CD drives that showed up, I think, with the Quadras and >> the floppy that was killed by the iMac? Around 6 years later? > > No, I surely don't mean those CD drives. Those CD drives weren't writeable > devices. > > If you reconsider the time line between when optical drives arrived that > users could use to actually store and exchange their own stuff, vs. when > floppies (which users had been using for this purpose for years) were yanked > out of the product line, you will find that this six years goes to... um... > NEGATIVE THREE YEARS. The original 1998 iMac only came with a CD-ROM. The > CD-RW wasn't introduced until the Early 2001 iMac. A truly user-hostile > decision. :-(
I don't know. I bought a bondi blue iMac the first day they were for sale. I never had an issue with a missing floppy or lack of CDR drive. I rarely used the floppy on my previous Macs (Mac 9600 back to Mac Plus with many in between ) to store data either. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
