Floppy Disks

Floppy drives on Macs disappeared in about 1998. According to Apple, it’s much more efficient to transfer files between machines using an Ethernet cable (Chapter 12), a CD that you burned (Chapter 10), or email (Chapter 19).

Of course, you can buy an external USB floppy drive for any Mac for about $45.

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