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- From: mhughes@comtch.spk.wa.us (Mark Hughes)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Why no floppy port on the Falcon??
- Message-ID: <X6LwqB1w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 21:13:56 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.092828.24518@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington
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- ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher) writes:
- > 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.
-
- Oh! It just hit me - the external floppy is no problem - There's a
- SCSI2 port, and there are several SCSI-based floppy drives available for
- the Mac... Spectre GCR should work fine with them (at most, a patch
- might be needed).
-
- - Mark Hughes (Caves of Steel 509-624-2078) mhughes@comtch.spk.wa.us
- "Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!" -Ben Jonson
-