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From: 6500erik@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Erik Adams)
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Subject: Re: LC & SuperDrive??
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Date: 14 Mar 91 19:15:40 GMT
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In article <1991Mar12.212149.8548@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> ds4a@dalton.acc.Virginia.EDU (Dale Southard) writes:

>This may or may not have been mentioned before but...
> 
>Just because there is no floppy drive port does not mean that one cannot add   
>a second floppy drive.  A quick look in one of my mail-order catalogs reveals
>that at least one manufacturer builds a SCSI-floppy (PLI, if you care).  I 
>agree with the previous post -- diminishing returns.  How many macs have you
>seen with an external floppy?  I have friends with perfectly good 800K externals
>that are sitting on shelves because they are not used.  If you really need a
>second floppy on the LC, plug it into the SCSI.  We are going to need the room
>on the rear panel for all of those ethernet ports soon :-).
> 
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>-->  -->  Dale  UVa  (ds4a@virginia.edu)

Well, I use my external floppy all the damn time, but then I got
it when hardrives were still damn expensive.

And as far as connecting floppies through the SCSI, I've read
that they do not provide the same kind of functionality that
internal floppies do:  one company's (I forget which) could
only write to HD disks, 400k and 800k disks were read-only.

I have an 800k disk drive, and use it, and probably will for a
while to come.

Erik
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