"Dark 1", whoever he may be, suggests its still the dark ages...
> Guess who hasn't a cd-rom, who has little need for a cd-rom, & who has no
> intention of getting a cd-rom?
You're kidding right? I mean ok, ok, a cdrom is not what you might
call absolutely essential to the actual functioning of the computer,
but then neither is the floppy drive.
Come to think of it, I hardly ever use the floppy drives on my machine
now.. :-/ Err.. :)
Anyway, seriously, you could get a cheap boring cd drive (I've got an
old 4x speed, for eg.) from somewhere and you can do allsorts of
stuff. The AF cover cd's have a phenomenal amount more programs,
pictures, anims, updates, patches, etc than the floppies, plus you
have access to music soundtracks with games, huge animated-intros
etc, you have a much better transfer rate - into the high hundreds of
Kb per sec or better, and hey, you can install cd-only software... :)
What is your objection to buying a cdrom drive that you feel you have
to say you have "no intention" of getting one? I don't mean that in a
negative way - I'm genuinely interested. You don't give any idea of
your computer specs but it must be reasonable to be using it for
serious internet use, right?
Perhaps Chris W. (if it doesn't contravene his buisiness interests,
obviously) could give us all an idea of the relative proportions.
What percentage of software which Active makes available in
either format are actually sold on floppy? I can't imagine anyone
wanting to buy 20 floppies if they had a cd, so its a reasonable
yardstick.
Yours in puzzlement, :)
Ian
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