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- Subject: Re: Why no floppy port on the Falcon??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.112559.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>
- From: dtarico@violet.ccit.arizona.edu
- Date: 10 Sep 92 11:25:59 MST
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- In article <1992Sep10.092828.24518@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>, ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher) writes:
- > In article <1992Sep9.222135.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu> dtarico@violet.ccit.arizona.edu writes:
- >>Can anybody give a good reason why the Falcon would not have an external
- >>floppy drive port? If not, I think it is really stupid that they left it
- >>off. They immediately make the Spectre GCR (in it's current form)
- >>incompatible by doing so. I also have an external HD drive that I would
- >>like to be able to use. Unless there is some good reason for leaving off
- >>the floppy drive port, I think this was a pretty stupid move. It seems
- >>like a simple option to include. Hasn't it been included in all previous
- >>ST(e) and TT models?
- >
- > I think there is a very good reason.. not enough space on either the back of
- > the machine or the circuit board.
- >
- > From the photos I've seen of the Falcon's internals they are pretty crammed
- > as it is!
- >
- > Would you prefer a floopy port to the SCSI2 interface, or would you like not
- > to be able to have an internal hard drive?
- >
- > In this small a machine everything is a compromise.
- >
- >>--
- >>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >> Doug Tarico
- >> dtarico@ccit.arizona.edu Where's it gonna get you when
- >> doug@sie.arizona.edu your time comes up?
- >>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >
- > Steve
- > --
- > Addresses:-
- > JANET:- ucacmsu@uk.ac.ucl or steve@uk.ac.ox.earth (preferable)
- > Internet:- ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk or steve@earth.ox.ac.uk (preferable)
-
- Maybe this is just me, but I would be plenty happy to give up the IDE hard
- drive port for a floppy drive port.
- --
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- Doug Tarico
- dtarico@ccit.arizona.edu Where's it gonna get you when
- doug@sie.arizona.edu your time comes up?
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