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- From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
- Subject: Re: Second floppy on Falcon
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.234828.28998@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:48:28 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..?
- >
- >Given a retail price of $799 for the entire Falcon, do you really think
- >it's reasonable to tell people to expect to pay more than 40% of the
- >cost of the computer to just add a floppy disk drive..?
- >
- >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..?
-
- Dunno. Kind of the same as trying to explain why I had to spend $150 for
- a 5-1/4" floppy drive for my $79 Atari 800XL way back in 1985. I did it,
- nonetheless, and I wasn't the only one in the world to do it...
- --
- -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
-
- All true wisdom is conveyed in one-line witticisms.
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