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Using floppy driven Macs has some serious disadvantages:
- if you do it the wrong way you might end up swapping a disks
a lot.
- you lack the disk space to put lots of (useless) gadgets in
your system folder
- you lack the disk space to run large applications
- you lack the disk space to handle large files
- you can't maintain large folders, but are forced to divide the
contents over several floppy disks
But there are also some interesting advantages:
- when your house is on fire, you only have to rescue a small
box of floppys instead of dragging a complete computer out of
the building. (with hard disk driven Macs this problem can be
solved by daily backups on removable, easy to carry around media)
- suppose you have a floppy driven Mac both at home and in your
office/pied-a-terre/weekend cottage, you only have to carry a
small box of floppies with you to have the same setup and docs
in all your homes and places (it is a bit like carrying a powerbook
around, but only lighter and much less expensive
- the limited disk space urges you to be very economical and efficient,
which may increase your productivity.
- you're less likely to suffer from hard disk problems
- you're less likely to get all your files infected at once when
a virus attacks you, because they are not all on a single hard
disk
- using floppy's instead of an external hard disk will keep your
Mac Plus silent.