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From: a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Why no floppy card?
Message-ID: <4439@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 91 02:27:30 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In <1991Jan3.003449.1@ccvax.iastate.edu>, taab5@ccvax.iastate.edu
           <in another group>             Marc Barrett writes:
|
|   CASE 5: HIGH-DENSITY FLOPPY DRIVES:
|   High-density 1.44MB 3.5" floppy drives have been available for PC/AT
| and 80386-based systems for several years.
|    [...]
|    Now that 2.88MB drives are becoming increasingly common,

    I am a little surprised that no third party manufacturer has thrown
 together a floppy controller card that would support regular IBMish
 2.88M, 1.44M & 720K drives. I'm sure a lot of people would much rather
 use the 2.88M disks for backups.
    -harvey

 "Let's see. George Bush is going to war to protect a feudal monarchy &
 it has nothing to do with oil? Tell that to a Tibetan, an East Timoran."
                                                           -lenny
      Harvey Taylor      Meta Media Productions
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