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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: 1.44MB FDD for A-MaxII?
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Date: 25 Jun 91 21:50:46 GMT
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In article <sticht.7356@edith.UUCP> sticht@edith.UUCP (Stefan Sticht) writes:

>Oh nice! How much is it? Anyone out there willing to write drivers  for  it
>for reading Mac, MS-DOS and Amiga Disks with it?  I  would  buy  it  for  a
>reasonable price!

I don't know what reasonable might be, but MacConnection has the PLI 
TurboFloppy 1.4 for $309, and the SuperFloppy for $429.  The difference is
that the SuperFloppy reads the Mac 400 and 800k formats as well as the
1.4 meg Mac and DOS formats.  The TurboFloppy only does 1.4 meg Mac and DOS.

I called PLI and they hadn't heard of anybody that had used one with an
Amiga and expressed concern about the lack of a driver.

If you have connections with somebody at a University, you might be
able to experiment.  They offered to ship me one on a trial basis for 
$379 (direct University of Texas price for the SuperFloppy version.)

Maybe an Amiga dealer with a good distributor could get close to the same
deal.