From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Eli the Bearded  <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:   
   >In comp.misc, Lawrence D'Oliveiro   wrote:   
   >> Further to that, 34 years ago puts their start in 1991, before CD-ROM   
   >> drives became popular in PCs. I think they were giving out floppy disks   
   >> for those first few years.   
   >>   
   >> Anybody remember seeing an AOL floppy?   
   >   
   >Definitely. Better than CDs because you could just wipe and reuse them.   
      
   Except that they were the worst quality floppies and they failed after   
   a while when you did that.  I spent some interesting times recovering   
   data for a project that used them.   
   --scott   
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)