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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New Mac Frustrations
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Date: 18 Nov 90 08:57:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Nov 18 02:57:00 1990


Now that 3rd-party companies are selling 1.4Mb SCSI floppy drives
cheaply ($250), the lack of the external floppy is not a great limitation.

Frankly, I ask, why aren't *ALL* of apple's floppies SCSI by now?
Then we wouldn't have these idiotic compatibility problems with 800K
v.s. 1.4Mb floppy disk drives.  800K owners could just rip out the
internal drive and stuff in a 1.4Mb drive.


Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
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