>:-) > >My son still hauls floppies back and forth from the PC's at school to the >Macs at home. Shudder. I was recently explaining to an incredulous person that I haven't had a "real" computer capable of reading floppy drives for 5 years. (of course, my "junkers"... the Quadra 700 (now gone) and the 7500/120 still could but the only reason I keep the 7500 around is that I use it to automate my weather data collection (I have it sitting in my office, headless and it powers up at 02:00 and then shuts itself down and does an AppleScripted data run to www.ec.gc.ca... it works flawlessly... not a hiccup in months :)). >I don't want to get into a discussion about public versus private blah >blah blah..... please.... just to say that what we - as Mac users- see as >the future has to drag along a legacy market.... Apple itself has been a little guilty of dragging its feet in a legacy market -- it's taken them a hell of a time to adopt USB 2.0 (I really hope the new laptops and desktops come with USB 2.0 builtin)!!! It's virtually impossible to find FireWire/1392 (1302 1902... can't remember the #) devices in most computer shops yet USB 2.0 is *everywhere*. I seem to remember seeing an ad for a reasonably fast external USB 2.0 burner for $100 and change. I saw a beautiful article in this weekend's paper that gave me a lot of fodder re: the effectiveness of garbarge dumps municipality vs. private and garbage reduction (that's not what it was directly about) but I'm going to leave that one for a stinkier day... Eric. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail _________________________________________________ For information concerning the MUGLO List just click on http://muglo.on.ca/pages/members.html#Joinmuglo Don't forget to periodically check our web site at: http://muglo.on.ca/