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In <1992Dec15.013422.8563@bnr.ca> bjgrier@bnr.ca (Brian Grier) writes:

>>  WHAT??? NO EXTERNAL FLOPPY???? 

>It sure does support an external floppy, the floptical SCSI drive
>can read 720K, 1.4meg, and 21meg disks. The 720K, and 1.4meg disks
>can be interchanged with any PC 720k or 1.4meg disk. According to
>Howard at ICD it works on the F030.

I guess by "the Falcon does not support external floppies" it was
meant  that  you  can't plug in any external disk drives like you
can with an ST or TT. It seems safe to say  that  much.  What  is
interesting  to  me in this context is, will it be possible to do
some soldering to add a port  for  an  external  non-SCSI  floppy
drive  to  the  falcon,  and  the OS will be able to deal with it
without modification? Or have they taken out the dispatchers  and
routines  for  dealing with two physical floppy drives, reasoning
there won't be two floppies on the Falcon anyway?

Greetinx and thanx in advance for enlightening me,

Jan

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