Indeed, this bargain Zeos comes with a paltry half-megabyte memory and a 42-megabyte hard drive, and lacks a floppy disk drive for the new 3-inch disks.

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The original Mac dumped the 5-inch disk for a 3.5-inch floppy, and the first iMac was one of the first desktops without a floppy disk drive.

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The NAND type could contain more than double the amount of information and be slower if used like a floppy disk or hard drive.

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Plus, users don't have to worry about toting around a floppy disk or flash drive--all they have to do is log on to pick up working on projects where they left off.

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So obsolete, in fact, that it may quickly join the ranks of such Sony success stories as the hard drive floppy disk and the Betamax video format.

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Computer DVD devices "may never completely replace the disk drive and floppy disks because access time will always be slower on DVD, " he says.

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The notebook's external storage options include a LS-120 SuperDisk drive (which also supports 3.5-inch floppy disks), a CD-ROM drive, a DVD ROM drive and hard disk drive options of up to 20G bytes.

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