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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 16Mhz Mac Classic?
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.014208.3620@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 90 01:42:08 GMT
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In article <77800073@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>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).

8 device limit, there already are SCSI floppies for those older machines,
SCSI floppies are more expensive.
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