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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 16Mhz Mac Classic?
Message-ID: <77800073@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 16:00:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Dec 13 10:00:00 1990


Why doesn't apple drop the stupid hardwired floppy interfaces and use
SCSI to support all disk drives (hard and floppy)?  This would have
allowed old users to upgrade 800K -> 1400K very easily (but alas,
users wouldn't have to retire so many g*dd*mn machines, I forgot).

Either drop the floppy port entirely, or drop the port and add a
second SCSI bus (to keep the same throughput)!

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