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From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Why no floppy upgrade?  Answer.
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Date: 10 Oct 90 03:58:16 GMT
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I've had a few requests for the answer to this since I said it in some
post somewhere.  Just has taken me awhile to get a post together and
post it.  So if anybody has been wondering about this, or if I hadn't
already posted this (I don't THINK I did), then here's the reason,
more or less.

 = BTW, why isn't NeXT offering the floppy upgrade?

Basically, NeXT reworked the inside of the Cube.  Along with a
reversed fan (don't know how it's reversed), the drive bays are
physically different.  The old Cube could only support two 660 drives,
but the new one can support 2 1.4Gig drives.  I'm not sure all the
details, but the bay sizes are too different.  I know with the new
Cube, you can put a floppy, a 105MB, and ither two small drives, or
one big one in the lower bay.  The new layout gives a lot more
configuration ability, and allows for a wider range of drive sizes,
from what I understand.

This information was gained by talking to the folks out a NeXT (they
even called back and gave me an answer to a question I'd asked a few
days before.  Not bad!)

-k