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- From: vombruch@quando.quantum.de (Stefan vom Bruch)
- Subject: Re: Why no floppy port on the Falcon??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.062952.1479@quando.quantum.de>
- Organization: Quantum Software GmbH, Dortmund, Germany
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- References: <1992Sep10.130037.142060@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 06:29:52 GMT
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- Jan T. Kim (aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de) wrote:
- : In <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? [...]
- :
- : [ ... ]
- : 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:
-
- No, it's not a software-problem. The only reason is that there isn't enough
- room for another port.
- I don't think I will miss the second floppy port very much. If you want to
- do some serious work you'll need a harddisk anyway and if you just want a
- Falcon for fun and games (and I hope there will be games for it) then those
- will support only one drive and/or a harddisk.
-
- Stefan
-
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