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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!acorn!osmith
- From: osmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Acorn Press Release 7 of 8 (A4000 range)
- Message-ID: <18269@acorn.co.uk>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 15:21:01 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.152842.15492@odin.diku.dk>
- Sender: osmith@acorn.co.uk
- Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England
- Lines: 20
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- In article <1992Sep1.152842.15492@odin.diku.dk> torbenm@diku.dk (Torben
- AEgidius Mogensen) writes:
-
- >>There is a 2MB floppy disc
- >>drive which, with RISC OS 3, can automatically detect and
- >>use Acorn and PC discs. Another major feature of this three
- >>box solution is the newly restyled keyboard.
-
- >Is the automatic disc detection available on the 3010/3020 also?
-
- The automatic Acorn/PC disc detection works on any model of Archimedes
- fitted with RISC OS 3. Even an A300 can do it. 2MB disc formats (1.6 MB ADFS
- and 1.44 MB DOS) are only available on the A5000 and newer models.
-
- >How is the keyboard restyled? I hope no key has been put between the
- >left Shift key and Z.
-
- The layout has not been changed. It's just the appearance that's different.
-
- Owen.
-