[WEB4LIB] Re: floppies (was RE: Mac resurgence)

[Dennis Moser]

Actually, I have to laugh...I really didn't mean to imply that floppies are
dead. Frankly, I think they should have kept the floppy drive on the iMacs.

What makes this so amusing is that I just came back from a class on full
text journals and rasied the very question about saving the file to
disk...floppy, that is! It seems that there was no "good" way of emailing
the files, but one could easily use the Browser's "Save As" function to
capture the content...so long as one had a place to "Save" to!

It really is more a matter of how you work and what you do. Jobs intended
the iMac to be a consumer-oriented computing device...not a workstation (and
that's unfortunate!).  And as a Mac-user, that is one of MY complaints...

I'll stop now. Glad to see that the Mac OS is showing up in the log files.

Dennis Moser

"That so few now dare to be eccentric,
marks the chief danger of the time."
~~~ John Stuart Mill


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Jorgensen <peterj at rand.lcl.lib.ne.us>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 11:04 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: floppies (was RE: Mac resurgence)


>On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Dennis Moser wrote:
>
>> WARNING: Slight drift of topic!
>
>As is this ...
>
>> (Aw, come on, be
>> honest! When did you last actually USE a floppy?)
>
>FWIW, I practically live on floppies.  Because on any given day I may be
>doing my work on as many as five different PCs (at work -- plus another
>one at home), I use floppies as electronic briefcases, keeping HTML files
>I'm working on one disk, Word files on another, etc.  And if I need to
>transfer a sizable file to my home computer, it's a LOT faster to do it via
>floppy disk (assuming it will fit) than to put it on a server and
>download it at home (at 56k).
>
>Peter Jorgensen
>Reference Department, Lincoln City Libraries
>Lincoln, Nebraska
>peterj at rand.lcl.lib.ne.us
>
>