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Date:      Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:37:06 -0800
From:      "Leland" <lsp3@gte.net>
To:        "Bob Willcox" <bob@immure.com>, "Brandon Fosdick" <bfoz@terrandev.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.9 is now available
Message-ID:  <002901c39fff$84bc0fa0$0201a8c0@Pentium166>
References:  <3FA0B460.7090008@freebsd.org><200310301808.h9UI8qaZ000347@ice.nodomain><20031030181318.GA97591@luke.immure.com> <3FA1CFBB.3040906@terrandev.com> <20031031042113.GA9280@luke.immure.com>

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> > Floppies are an endangered species. At work we just bought a large
> > number (thousands) of new machines and not a single one came with a
> > floppy drive. Now that I think of it, neither of my home machines has a
> > floppy either. Although I do have one drive sitting on the shelf, just
> > in case.
>
> Well, considering how cheap they are, I always include a floppy drive
> in my systems for the same reason. Though I must admit that I find that
> I have to boot MSDOS to update MB BIOSes more often than anything with
> them.  :-)
>
> Bob

My current systems lack a CD ROM as I use the space in a 1U for another
drive.
I  FTP from a local system and the hard drives seems to work faster without
a CD.

Leland





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