On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 05:41:22AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > The only reason floppies still exist in PCs is because the computer > companies are too scared to yank them out. Fortunately this is changing; several PC makers have either announced that new machines will not have floppies ot they just started making them that way with no fanfare. > I honestly haven't used my floppy since I first installed Debian in, > uhm... 1995? Did CD images exist for Debian back then? And how much > were CD-Rs, media and CD-ROMs? You could make the argument then that > it was an economic problem to only have CD-ROM images. Yeah, there were CD images in 1995 :-) Somewhere I have a gold CD of rex, the first debian I installed successfully. Sadly, that machine is no longer in my possession. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. -- Plato
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