I thought Apple was going to rid all macs of such capabilities?  Why did they
change their mind.

On 2 Jul 2003, JWolf6589 wrote:

> I thought Apple was going to rid all macs of such capabilities?  Why did they
> change their mind.
>
>
they;re not new. the os 9 booting ones are still the old MDD models (ie no
airport extreme, no firewire 800 etc...)

Fred

In <20030702123107.17964.00000013@mb-m03.aol.com> JWolf6589 wrote:

> I thought Apple was going to rid all macs of such capabilities?  Why 
> did they change their mind.

It was you. They finally listened. Didn't you hear? The new Power Mac 
G5s are all coming with SuperDrives as standard, so they'll be able to 
read and write 800KB _and_ 1.4MB floppy disks.

-- 
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

Apple II - FutureCop:LAPD - iMac Game Wizard
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws/
________________________________________________________________________
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bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures
people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever
seen, is the only one that meets that standard. 

                                                       Bill Gates

In article <20030703222942606+1200@news.inv.ihug.co.nz>,
 Roger Johnstone <rojaws@es.co.nz> wrote:

> In <20030702123107.17964.00000013@mb-m03.aol.com> JWolf6589 wrote:
> 
> > I thought Apple was going to rid all macs of such capabilities?  Why 
> > did they change their mind.
> 
> It was you. They finally listened. Didn't you hear? The new Power Mac 
> G5s are all coming with SuperDrives as standard, so they'll be able to 
> read and write 800KB _and_ 1.4MB floppy disks.

That�s not enough, they still need to bring back all legacy ports, so we 
can use our ADB keyboards and mice and external 5 1/4" floppy drives 
etc. Not to forget SCSI, NuBus slots and other means to connect all the 
oh-one-simply-cannot-live-without-this-piece-of-hardware. LocalTalk? 
Please, we need that too!
;)

..lauri

l <macuser@nomail.com.invalid> wrote:

> That�s not enough, they still need to bring back all legacy ports, so we
> can use our ADB keyboards and mice and external 5 1/4" floppy drives 
> etc. Not to forget SCSI, NuBus slots and other means to connect all the
> oh-one-simply-cannot-live-without-this-piece-of-hardware. LocalTalk? 
> Please, we need that too!
> ;)

And 8-track tape players.

-- 
Mike Rosenberg

<http://www.macconsult.com>
<http://bogart-tribute.net>

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, l wrote:

> In article <20030703222942606+1200@news.inv.ihug.co.nz>,
>  Roger Johnstone <rojaws@es.co.nz> wrote:
>
> > In <20030702123107.17964.00000013@mb-m03.aol.com> JWolf6589 wrote:
> >
> > > I thought Apple was going to rid all macs of such capabilities?  Why
> > > did they change their mind.
> >
> > It was you. They finally listened. Didn't you hear? The new Power Mac
> > G5s are all coming with SuperDrives as standard, so they'll be able to
> > read and write 800KB _and_ 1.4MB floppy disks.
>
> That=B4s not enough, they still need to bring back all legacy ports, so w=
e
> can use our ADB keyboards and mice and external 5 1/4" floppy drives
> etc. Not to forget SCSI, NuBus slots and other means to connect all the
> oh-one-simply-cannot-live-without-this-piece-of-hardware. LocalTalk?
> Please, we need that too!
> ;)
>
Yeah, Mac OS X sucks, i hope the new powermacs will be able to boot the
original System 1.0. Fits on half a 400k floppy, none of the bloat OS X
has.

Fred

In article <20030703222942606+1200@news.inv.ihug.co.nz>,
 Roger Johnstone <rojaws@es.co.nz> wrote:

> In <20030702123107.17964.00000013@mb-m03.aol.com> JWolf6589 wrote:
> 
> > I thought Apple was going to rid all macs of such capabilities?  Why 
> > did they change their mind.
> 
> It was you. They finally listened. Didn't you hear? The new Power Mac 
> G5s are all coming with SuperDrives as standard, so they'll be able to 
> read and write 800KB _and_ 1.4MB floppy disks.

What! No single sided 400KB disks?

Andr�

-- 
n.b. there are no monotremes in my email address

Andre G. Isaak <aisaak@platypus.wellesley.edu> wrote:

> What! No single sided 400KB disks?

Yeah, those, too, along with 5 1/4" disks, punch cards, and that awful
tape that got your pants all oily if you put a roll in your pocket.
Even 78 rpm phonograph records.

-- 
Mike Rosenberg

<http://www.macconsult.com>
<http://bogart-tribute.net>