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Article #46165Re: external drive
From: Dan Schwarz
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 19:18
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 19:18
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In article <3632@zehntel.UUCP> dac@zehntel (Dennis Carlson) writes: >This may have been discussed before, and I missed it. >I have noticed that there is a floppy port on the back of the 800k drive. >could someone tell me if it is used for anything. This port came about when Apple decided to make peripherals interchangable between the Apple // and Macintosh lines. If you have, say, an Apple //gs, you can daisy-chain drives together. On a Macintosh, however, the port is not used for much (and no software exists to support daisy-chained drives.) -Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!dan From: dan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dan Schwarz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: external drive Message-ID: <1990Feb13.191806.4917@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> Date: 13 Feb 90 19:18:06 GMT References: <3632@zehntel.UUCP> Distribution: usa Organization: Brandeis University Computer Science Dept Lines: 11