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From: smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Your Worst Nightmare)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: External 3.5" drive for XT
Message-ID: <1989Sep18.192042.11064@ug.cs.dal.ca>
Date: 18 Sep 89 19:20:42 GMT
References: <42900049@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> <89258.220000MGREENE@AUVM.BITNET>
Reply-To: smith@ug.cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Your Worst Nightmare)
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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In article <89258.220000MGREENE@AUVM.BITNET> MGREENE@AUVM.BITNET (Michael A. Greene) writes:
>You can't run a 1.44 mb 3.5" from an XT.  The data xfer rate is too
>slow.  You can run a 720.
>
>Save your money.


	Actually, you can.  I've used the Sysgen Omnibridge on a PC clone
(not XT, PC) with mixed results.  It can be done, but only with a LOT of
fiddling.

	Sean

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