🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan13.015202.2699@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
[...]
>>I have 3 disks, CDROM, and tape on my Adaptec 1542b. Best investment I
>>ever made on my system.
>
>What is all this "pack my pc with crap" stuff all about?
>
>Who needs more than 2 hard drives in a PC?
>(If you have 3 hard drives then you made a boo boo when you bought the 
>second drive)

This is absolute nonsense, it's quite useful to have this option.
Furthermore you can add removable disks: real hdd's, Syquest's, Bernoulli's
an MO-disks.

>An IDE controller can control 2 hard drives, 2 floppy drives, and you can
>get tape backup drives that hook up to your floppy disk controller.
>Serial, parallel, and game ports also on the IDE card.
>All that on 1 card.
>
[...] much useful slot-counting deleted

Ever heard of IRQ's ? Usually you run out of IRQ's before you run out of
slots. That's what the previous posting mentioned and you seem to have missed.
A floppy streamer is also no serious option.(and needs another IRQ)
>
>If SCSI is the be-all/end-all, why are there no SCSI floppy drives?
>Any SCSI video cards?  SCSI modems?  SCSI sound cards?
>So many SCSI device id's, but relatively few SCSI devices...
>
There are SCSI-floppies, terminal-adapters, network-cards, scanners,
parallel-ports, printers, ISDN-adapters....

So many words, but relatively few content....
>
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