On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 at 07:49:27, Peter S Tillier wrote:
(ref: <005f01c1198c$f25299e0$5c16989e@btclick>)
>Well it was designed to cope with a terrible mass-storage medium! It's a
>pity that Sir Clive didn't put a single floppy into the QL instead of the
>microdrives with an adequate power supply he would have sold millions. And
>there would have been (less/no) need for the slave blocks.
IIRC when the QL was being developed, the std drives were 5.25 - and
about 45cm high. That clearly was not on. Even the first 3.5 drives
were too large.
It was just not possible at the time - a few years later, yes.
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