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- From: bossoj@aix.rpi.edu (Joseph Charles Bossolini)
- Subject: Re: Second floppy on Falcon
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <A59959@HB.maus.de> <A45838@K.maus.de> <72073@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:07:05 GMT
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- In article <72073@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
- >Peter Missel writes:
- >j> WHAT??? NO EXTERNAL FLOPPY????
- >>Why not connect a Floptical to the SCSI-2 port? Try this on the Amiga 1200..
- >
- >How about $300 as a reason..?
- >
- [stuff deleted]
- >
- >How do you explain to someone who would like to add a $42 floppy drive
- >that it's going to take a Floptial 21 Meg drive to accomplish what they
- >want to do..?
- >
- >BobR
- >
-
- Why would anyone want a second floppy anyway? IMO it's not needed if
- you have a hard drive, and you buy a Falcon without one it should only cost
- about $150US to get a small HD...
-
- just my 2 cents,,,
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