In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Tony wrote: > >>Microdrives especially killed the QL. He tried to push the speed up to >>100k - and they never worked reliably. Unfortunately, the 3.5 disks at >>the time were simply too large and power hungry. >>If only....... > >......the QL would have been more successful than the Macintosh, there'd be >a million active QL users, and Motorola would be producing 3rd generation >850 MHz 68060 CPU's ;-)
A floppy disk drive would certainly have made it more successful - if people would have been prepared to pay for it. Around 1/3 to 2/3 again added to the selling price ? I remember my first double disk drives for QL were around 200ukp, and then there was the disk interface too :-( -- Malcolm Cadman
