Glenn writes:

> Denys writes:
>
>  > How about a blast from the past:  I found the following document, dated
>  > December 1990 on the web:
>  >
>  > "The NeXTcube: Similar to the original NeXT, with three free NuBus
>  > expansion slots. It can be purchased with a variety of mass storage
>  > options, including the 2.88MB floppy disk,
>  [snip]
>
>  Interesting.  I thought the original NeXT machine *was* a cube.
>  IIRC, there was a fair amount of controversy over its lack of
>  a floppy drive.  (Deja vu all over again, eh? ;)

I have no idea what came as "standard" on a NeXT machine, but the most common
floppy for the system was the same 21MB/1.44MB floptical ("the wave of the
future") drive that we bought into for use with our Macs. It was also commonly
used on SGI's Indy series machines, too. With endorsements like that, how
could it fail, I asked myself then? -- which, btw, is the same question Denys
is currently asking himself about the 120MB superdisk flopticals :-).

Wirt Atmar