Re: Re: Apple Floppy Drives

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From: Homer J Simpson
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:37

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"Stan Blazejewski" <stanblaz@netspace.net.au> wrote in message 
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> Are you sure about that?  When I queried an Apple dealer why the floppy 
> drive
> cost more than the hard drives  he said that they weren't the same as 
> normal
> floppy drives, they used variable rotation speed so that data density was 
> the
> same over the whole disk.

The Coco floppy drive, which was an el cheapo POS, was $799 originally. 
Tonka toys were better built! And Apple stuff was notoriously overpriced.

I do have a copy of Beneath Apple Dos somewhere - it will have a run down.

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