For instance, the Newer Technologies iMac floppy drive cited above will sport some old-style Mac printer connectors on the back.
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"We wanted something on the desktop that would be low maintenance - no hard drive and no floppy drive, " he said.
But the end of the optical drive on mainstream PCs is as inevitable now as the end of the floppy drive was then.
Essentially a floppy drive on steroids, the inexpensive Zip stores 100 megabytes--or about 70 times the capacity of a standard floppy--on a single disk.
SmartDisk's clever FlashPath devices that will let you use the memory cards in a 3.5-inch floppy drive, or, for music, an audio cassette player.
"After we called a technician to look into the problem, we found that hundreds of checks had been jammed into the floppy drive opening, " he said.
With the iMac design's rounded edges, the laptop looks like a giant clam, moreso than other PC laptops, but like its Apple desktop cousin lacks a floppy drive.
As Apple's iMac computer - which has a handle but no floppy drive and comes in fruit colors - continues to win new customers, an industry rethink is underway.
There's been a lot of nostalgia circulating around the PC world in the past year, but there's only one element of early home computing history that everyone shares in common: the floppy drive.
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" Moreover, this wee PC will pack a mysterious Intel Core 2 Duo processor, Windows Vista, DVD writer, an optional floppy drive (saywha?), and a whole smorgasbord of other not-yet-mentioned components within a case not much larger than "your average briefcase.
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Stick a CD-ROM in your drive, put the floppy in drive A:, and reboot.
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.
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.
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.
Computer DVD devices "may never completely replace the disk drive and floppy disks because access time will always be slower on DVD, " he says.
The NAND type could contain more than double the amount of information and be slower if used like a floppy disk or hard drive.
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.
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.
It had no mouse or hard drive, 512K of main memory and two floppy drives.
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