On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Swift Griggs wrote:
I'll probably put in a SCSI ZIP drive and a combo 3.5" / 5 1/4" drive if I
go with a big honkin' case. If not, I'll just do a 3.5" floppy if I gotta
choose. I wonder if any of those "big floppy" style drives supported
standard 3.5" floppies, too? Didn't the old LS120 and Sony HiFD do
backwards support of older 1.44MB floppies, too?
MOST of the "2.88M" drives (2.81MiB) drives could also do 1.4M; same FDC
but needed device driver and twice the data transfer rate for 2.8M.
And the "Floptical"s; SCSI! 20M on a 3.5" sized disk!
No CD.
Why no CD-ROM? 2/3G storage; SCSI or proprietary interfaces, even
parallel port adapters. Unless you created your own software, required
MS-DOS 3.10 or above. CD-ROM was less work for installing Windoze
3.10/3.11 than a couple dozen floppies.
