> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 5:16 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Off Topic: 2MB Floppy
>
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> This is really the core of the problem. Technology moves on -- and at the
> moment never really gets a chance to grab a substantially majority of the
> market to dictate that the "current" standard be supported any more than
> just
> a few years -- before the next "wave of the future" arrives on the scene.
> Sony's 1.44MB original format had that chance -- and because of it --
> became a
> defacto standard that "had to be" supported.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
Howdy,

So I decided to test the latest tech stuff.  I took an "old tech" 1.44
floppy and
a "new tech" 120 Mb floppy and put them on the floor side by side.  I then
stomped each one an equal number of times.  Now neither the old tech nor
the new tech works at all.  I therefore conclude that both techs are useless
techs and we need some really new techs.  Plus the guy I stole the floppies
from for testing is mad at me.  Wouldn't listen when I tried to explain that
it
was all in the interest of advancing technology.

Speaking of which I see that NASA or the Smithsonian or someone is doing
wind tunnel tests of the Wright brothers plane to try and figure out how it
ever
flew at all.

Jim Trudeau