Boston Globe: Once crucial to PCs, floppy drive now a waste of space. As often happens, Apple Computer Inc. chairman Steve Jobs saw the trend coming a long way off. Nearly four years ago, his first iMac computer dispensed with the floppy altogether, much to the derision of this columnist, among others.
Heh. I remember defending Apple’s decision to kill off the floppy, back in 1998 when the iMac first came out. I bought one of the Rev. A iMacs for a friend of mine (as a wedding gift), and that was his first question: Where’s the floppy?
And my first question was, Why do you need a floppy?
(I had also bought him a Zip drive and a year of internet access.) He couldn’t think of a good reason, but he had trouble letting go of the concept anyway.
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