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- From: zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons)
- Subject: Re: External HD Floppies
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 08:11:13 GMT
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- Jim Omura (jimomura@tndb.UUCP) wrote:
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- : Apparently, the reason why the A1200 doesn't have an HD floppy
- : is because the A4000 drives were too tall. But that's only important
- : for the low profile A1200 case. An external floppy could be any
- : height, so long as some manufacturer made a case to fit. So the question
- : I have is whether anybody knows of any company who has announced an
- : external 1.7 Meg external floppy which would be usable on an A1200
- : or, more to my interest, on an A500 with with DOS 2.1?
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- : --
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- : Jim Omura, (416) 652-3880
- : 'jimomura@lsuc'
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- Why in gods name do you need a case?? (I don't know, it may be just me, but
- I don't consider a computer a real computer unless its got wires running all
- over, and etc.... You don't even want to hear about what my 500 looks like)
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- I've got an external thats on the fritz.... Could I buy the 1200, pull the
- low density 3.5 from inside it, replace just the drive itself from the
- external with the one from the 1200, stuff my 3.5" IDE HD into where the
- floppy used to go, and buy a high density, throw it on top of the 1200,
- with a cable connecting the the hd floppy with the connector inside the
- 1200 and expect the whole thing to work? Oh yeah, and one more thing...
- How's the power supply in the 1200? Do I need to hook up my IBM ps if I've
- got, oh, say an HD, a high density floppy, a low density one, and four
- megs of ram in a PCMCIA card (bringing the total to 6 megs? am I right?)
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