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Old November 29th 17, 06:10 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mark Lloyd[_2_]
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Default Dell computer with no input

On 11/29/2017 08:18 AM, Mayayana wrote:

[snip]

Windows computers tended to have floppy IDE


Floppy drives are not IDE. Perhaps there's an invisible "and" between those.

plugs
in the motherboards for many years after that, even
when they stopped shipping with floppy drives. I
put old drives into a number of computers.


My newest desktop computer has no floppy connector, but it does have
RS232 (serial) and parallel port connectors on the motherboard.

[snip]

All of which is to say that it seems very premature to
me to start leaving out DVD drives, or to buy computers
without them.


I have a small USB optical drive that's easy to connect to any PC if I
need it (which is very seldom).

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