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- From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Why no floppy port on the Falcon??
- Message-ID: <10261@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 06:42:09 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.222135.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu> <1992Sep10.092828.24518@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <1992Sep10.112559.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>
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- dtarico@violet.ccit.arizona.edu writes:
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- >Maybe this is just me, but I would be plenty happy to give up the IDE hard
- >drive port for a floppy drive port.
-
- Maybe it is.
-
- I don't see any use at all for a second floppy drive. I hardly use the
- internal one I have now. I never even bothered to up my tiny 360K SS
- ST floppy to a 720K DS drive until after I'd had 2 hard drives.
-
- Floppies are just for transfering data between computers. What use is two?
- Especially when the one you have holds 1.4M anyway.
-
- Sure, anyone who doesn't have a hard drive probably thinks two floppies
- is absolutely essential, but what does even a SMALL hard-drive cost these
- days (especially when you already have the IDE and SCSI connections ready
- to be used)?
-
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- Warwick
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