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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: 12 Sep 1992 02:16:16 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, JJL101@psuvm.psu.edu (J.J. Lehett) says:
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- > Well, if it came to a choice between the SCSI 2 port, and the floppy
- >port, I think most would agree that the SCSI 2 port was the way to go. We
- >are after all talking about a machine with not a tremendous amount of room
- >back there.
- > The SCSI 2 port should more than make up for any 'tears' shed by not
- >having a external floppy port. So many folks are getting upset about
- >having a port that is becoming less and less a standard (the 720K Atari
- >floppy) when what thay are getting is a port than can handle a new 1.44, 2.88,
- >floptical, and hard drives to boot. And all STANDARDLY available! I think
- >its really a small price to pay. (I highly expect Dave Small will have
- >a fix to get a GCR working with the Falcons).
- >------------------
- >J.J. Lehett : Atari's, puzzles, games, chaos, fractals, math....
- >
-
- I guess I'll have to agree. We all cried about not having CD-ROMs
- available for our computer.
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- The SCSI 2 port should help a lot there.
-
- I thought about how the Falcon 030 and Jaguar could possibly
- be compatible with each other.
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- We hear that the Jaguar may have two 68030 processors running in
- parallel. Well, what happens if you stick another 68030 in that
- empty processor slot?
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- And, I bet the Jaguar wilhave a CD player built in...
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- What happens if you just add a CD player to that SCSI port in the back?
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- I'll bet that the Falcon 030 and future Jaguar are very closely
- related and I'll that both were worked on the same time...
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