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- From: aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim)
- Subject: Re: Why no floppy port on the Falcon??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.130037.142060@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
- Reply-To: kim@vax.mpiz-koeln.mpg.dbp.de
- Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne, F. R. Germany
- References: <1992Sep9.222135.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 13:00:37 GMT
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- In <1992Sep9.222135.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu> dtarico@violet.ccit.arizona.edu writes:
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- >Can anybody give a good reason why the Falcon would not have an external
- >floppy drive port? [...]
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- I've been surprised by finding out about that too, and I can't
- offer any explanation. Could any competent soldering expert
- comment on the chances to add a port for an external disk drive?
- In principle it should be possible in terms of hardware, I
- assume. However, it may be difficult to hack up the Falcon TOS to
- deal with the additional drive, if the programmers of the Falcon
- TOS assumed there would never be a drive B:
-
- Greetinx, Jan
-
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