Re: 2 Ext. Floppies on A500?

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From: Steven Collins
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1990 16:00

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I built a 2 drive bay for from a pair of NEC drives for the (ack!) IBM, and
they have been running very happily on my A500 for a couple of months.
I have even plugged another drive onto the end of the chain and used
3 externals on several occasions. As a satisfied A1000 user for several 
years, I foolishly skipped reading the A500 'USER' manual word for word. ,
so until now, I had no idea you were only supposed to put one external
drive on an A500!!  This is certainly not mentioned in any of the
technical documentation I read in the course of building the interface
for these drives.  (is it?). I guess the power supply sizing probably
knocked a couple of bucks of the A500 price, but I wonder if the limited
expandability is really worth it...
                                         steve collins

ps: Are there any other little A500 suprises I should be aware of???

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