From: letoured_at_sover.net
Date: Sat Jul 15 2000 - 03:02:50 EDT
Randal Whittle <rwhittle_at_usa.net> said:
>At 11:10 AM 7/13/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>>I was looking at a new 600e (with 3 yr warranty) vs a new A20m - one year
>>warranty. I agree the A20 in the model I want has a larger display (and
>>might be slightly faster); I guess the convenience of not having to fiddle
>>with an external diskette drive (or swap it with the CD) is worth
>>something also.
> When's the last time you touched a diskette?
> I haven't used a diskette in months...
That is you with WinX. With OS2 I sometimes use the floppy drive to boot into
an old version of DOS so I can run an old program for some specific reason, or
to load old software that came on floppies. -- You see OS2 users didn't have
to go out and buy everything new to keep the functionality they had before the
current version of OS2. Some of us also still run the old stuff because
years of data were saved with the old programs and there is no rational reason
to spend time and money converting it to the latest whatever stuff. -- Its
really quite simple and no big deal because once upon a time IBM promised a
better DOS then dos, and a better Windows then windows -- and they delivered
it.
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