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From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 3rd floppy w/ power supply
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Date: 4 Dec 88 03:18:39 GMT
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Todd M. Lewis has some questions about a third floppy dirve for Amy 1000 and
500.  I can't really comment on 500 but with the 1000, there have been many
people who used three Amiga drives without problems.  HT Electronics currently
runs their BBS on such a machine.  I do not believe they use expansion memory
but the system has been running for years that way.  I have an insider and a t
third drive made by California Access.  When I asked a few hardware gurus at
the local user group they said the new micro 3.5" drive use such little power
that an outboard supply is not necessary.  That is what Ca. Access says also.
The drive is spec'd at 2 watts.  Now if your system is loaded with memory and
peripherals then you may need to run a few calculations but apparantly 1.5 meg
of memory and two drives don't cause any problems.

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