It wasn't the iMac Jobs was famous for . . .

Post #325,289 by Andrew Grygus 4/26/10 10:49:14 PM Reply	It wasn't the iMac Jobs was famous for . . . . . it was the NeXT - and the lack of a floppy was a major reason for its failure. His engineers begged him to allow a floppy, but he refused - until near the end he had the "Insanely Great" idea of putting in a floppy, but by then it was too late. The problem was: at the time a writable CD cost about $40. If a software vendor had a 3 byte bug fix to distribute, that was $40 for every user of the software (the Internet was not yet widely used). And $40 was a lot more money then than it is now. "Insanely Great" my ass!
Post #325,294 by rcareaga 4/26/10 11:49:08 PM Reply	I don't think the original NeXT had a CD-ROM It used a 256MB magneto-optical drive. The idea was that you could have your entire operating environment in a cartridge that would fit in a jacket pocket. Sit down to a NeXT Cube at a remote location, insert your M/O drive, and it would be as though you were back at your personal workstation. At one time (back when CD-ROMs were about five bucks apiece) I thought that Fujitsu's 650MB M/O disks (about the size of a Sony floppy, but twice as thick) were the bee's knees. I've still got about twenty of them in their original cellophane, and two external drives—SCSI, alas!—here at the Harrison Street Museum of Senescent Technology. cordially,
Post #325,309 by boxley 4/27/10 8:51:53 AM Reply	correct If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
Post #325,321 by Andrew Grygus 4/27/10 11:04:46 AM Reply	I'm sure you're right . . . . . but the cost was still way to high for many uses.

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