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Article #21264Re: Second floppy on Falcon
From: dlk0ms9s
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 22:19
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 22:19
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In article <72073@cup.portal.com>, Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
> Peter Missel writes:
> j> WHAT??? NO EXTERNAL FLOPPY????
>>Why not connect a Floptical to the SCSI-2 port? Try this on the Amiga 1200..
>
> How about $300 as a reason..?
>
> Given a retail price of $799 for the entire Falcon, do you really think
> it's reasonable to tell people to expect to pay more than 40% of the
> cost of the computer to just add a floppy disk drive..?
>
> How do you explain to someone who would like to add a $42 floppy drive
> that it's going to take a Floptial 21 Meg drive to accomplish what they
> want to do..?
>
> BobR
>
OK guys, I have the reason why there is no external floppy on the Falcon.
The disc drive would take too much power away from the new
FLACONbOOk 030
Coming RSN... / /
(
\__/ Mark Santora
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