Re: Second floppy on Falcon

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From: Joseph Charles Bossolini
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:07

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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..?
>
[stuff deleted]
>
>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
>	

Why would anyone want a second floppy anyway?  IMO it's not needed if
you have a hard drive, and you buy a Falcon without one it should only cost
about $150US to get a small HD...

just my 2 cents,,,

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