European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rows so does its uses " r. He raw ability of a Nalion. Ii has two the Speed at which a auctions and a fits the machine is have seen a change ,. Process around. Icon and handle 8i that rip through 20 ,. Cond and handle 32 with thai Power can9 wore than one jobs to equipped Vit hard plastic. The the neck. And i you want to switch irom a Aid about 720,000 word processor to a spreadsheet or \ in High density database you have to manage an ther entire. New computers set of floppies. While you can run some of those programs not use removable from floppy disks most of them Are really Metal disk coated designed to use a hard disk drive where All magnetic medium. The files can be stored and accessed Tat table today wit instantly., Ala ,-.-". L. H you want to get involved in do Klopi be is one of the hard publishing or other graphics based work you a standards Inch will absolutely need a hard disk since the ,000 words of text Liles containing Printer fonts As Well As the but if you Are doing files you create can Eal up millions of bytes i document you of . V the second major advantage of a  drive is Speed. A Standard 5v4-Inch floppy than 30 million urns at 300.revolutions per minute. A hard Lent ol25 or 30. Drive turns five times As ast. That Means. Your computer can Lead and write data much. I today s More quickly with a hard drive. Are so Large that they for cask intensive programs such As Bob s by disks. A Good word Star it can mean a quantum leap in to one disk Lor the. Performance. The  message that. Constantly bedevil word Star users while the program reads from and writes to a floppy. Drive turn into Mere flashes on the screen. If you have an ism compatible with iwo floppy drives you can replace one of them with a hard disk or isl add a hard disk if you have a computer with additional drive Bays. Available. Ii you want to keep both floppies. And Don t have any More drive Bays available you can buy a hard disk on a circuit card thai plugs into one of the expansion slots inside your computer.  either of those can be a do it yourself operation although novices Are probably boiler off gelling a store to install the hard drive Evert if it costs a few a otitis More. You will still need at least one floppy disk drive by the Way my sort of reply to Bob s second question. First you need some Way to Transfer programs and files to your hard. Disk the first Lime or to transport Liles from ,. One computer to another. Second you should always make backup copies  files on floppy disks just in Case your hard drive crashes. Like most computer hardware hard drives have become cheaper and More powerful Over the last Lew years at the Bottom end a 20