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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