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- From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Why no floppy port on the Falcon??
- Date: 11 Sep 1992 14:35:43 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <10261@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <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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- In a previous article, warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) says:
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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)?
- >
- >
- >--
- >Warwick
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- If you are one of the thousands that have an external floppy disk drive,
- you'd love to hook it up to the Falcon.
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- Tough, I bet it knocked about $50 or more off of the Falcon...
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- >
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