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On Wed, 7 Jun 1995 Hawkeye130@aol.com wrote:

> In reply to some talk earlier this year about how Microsoft will have to
> deplete the worldwide supply of 3.5=94 disks to satisfy the needs of the
> upcoming Windows95 release...
It would take less time to download them over 28,800 than it would to
try and suck the bytes off of 200 floppies.

> they better hurry up, because with the large number of free software disk=
s
> I=92ve gotten from AOL, C$erve  and the like in the past few weeks either=
 in
> the mail or bundled with magazines, there won=92t be any disks left for
> Microsoft!

Of course those AOL and Prodigy disks are the "tip of the ice-burg".  My
first Prodigy "update" was almost 5 meg.

> I=92m not complaining, these disks come in handy for doing my backups at =
home.

Must be fun trying to back-up a 1.2 Gig drive :-).

> -------------------------------------------------------------------------=
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> John Graham

=09Rex Ballard
=09Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
=09Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
=09the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.



From rballard@cnj.digex.net Wed Jun 21 01:29:30 1995
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