![]() ![]() It was fast enough for writing CD-Rs using the 4-6X speeds common at the time. The first iMac was kind of crippled, though, as USB 1.1 "Full Speed" was not exactly what you would want for external hard drives. USB was also mature enough to provide external floppy capability for those who required it. It's also arguable if you can call the 150 a "PC", since it was only MS-DOS compatible, not register-level compatible with the IBM PC, as the industry later settled on.īy 1998, floppies were mostly dead as a software distribution format, helped by the increased affordability of CD-R. You could boot a 150 from a hard drive box without a floppy drive, although I suspect that very few were used that way. HP did that in 1983 with the Touchscreen Model 150, where all mass storage, floppy or hard drive, was in separately purchased HP-IB attached boxes. I think the really significant aspect of the iMac was no floppy drive in a desktop computer. Portables like the HP OmniBook and PowerBook 100 had made the floppy drive an external dongle for years. Not the first, although it was a significant move in 1998. ![]()
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