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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Hammer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Mac Floppies
Message-ID: <1990Jul23.211908.11392@hoss.unl.edu>
Date: 23 Jul 90 21:19:08 GMT
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In article <R#1$9A#@rpi.edu> mvk@pawl.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent) writes:
>In article <82@alchemy.UUCP> hzink@alchemy.UUCP (Harry K. Zink) writes:
>>The Apple II line, thanks among other things to Prodos, limits you to two 3.5"
>>drives per port.
>
>The disk drive port on the Apple IIGS allows you to have four drives:  
>two 3.5 inch and two 5.25 inch.  Even in Apple IIe emulation mode, ProDOS finds
>all four.
>
>Mike                                                 mvk@pawl.rpi.edu
>

Perhaps he means slot, not port.  This was a shortcoming in DOS 3.3 as
well.
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