Joe Nicholson wrote in a message to Tom Walker:

 -=> Quoting Tom Walker to Roy J. Tellason <=-

 TW> I have been concedering putting a CD-R Writer in that machine
 TW> as some of the New computers no longer have a floppy drive.

 JN>  Was it DELL who announced last year that it would no longer  have
 JN> floppy drives in its new computers?  I would expect
 JN>  other manufacturers to follow that lead in the not-to-distance 
 JN> future.  Even AOL hasn't mailed floppies for a few years, which 
 JN> lead to a decline in the availability of cheap-free disks.  

Yeah,  but I got a hold of a whole *mess* of those before they went away, 
so it'll be quite some time before I run out of them.  :-) 

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