February 13, 2001
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Will the floppy disk find new life?
Matsushita figures it can stuff 32MB worth of data onto a standard high density floppy disk using a technology called zone bit encoding. Cool. The down side to this breakthrough in cheap, nearly ubiquitous storage could be access speed. Transferring a megabyte of files on and off a floppy is tedious enough. How much cursor watching are we going to be subjected to while waiting for twenty times that amount of data to be shuffled around? At any rate, it’s time to dig through the closet and pull out all those old AOL disks that begat the current silver beer coaster syndrome. Perhaps Steve should rethink his position on the floppyless Mac after all. Long live legacy storage peripherals.
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