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They were 720k not 1.44MB. I don't think apricot released anything with a 1.44MB before they gave up on the PC market.
by NikkiA 3y ago
They were 720k not 1.44MB. I don't think apricot released anything with a 1.44MB before they gave up on the PC market.
- rasz 3y agodamn marketing! >Twin 720K MicroFloppy drives offer 1.44 megabytes of mass storage but I cant see second FDD on the picture, not a spot for one.
- iam-TJ 3y agoThere were/are two front slots; the permutations were: 720KB FDD, blank 720KB FDD, 720KB FDD 720KB FDD, 20MB HDD (I also seem to recall seeing (blank,blank) for "dumb terminals" when Xenix and line cards were in the Xenix server. Could have up to 16 terminals hanging off the back when using Xenix.
- NikkiA 3y agoThose would be the 'Xen-WS' version, I once used one on a network in the mid 80s (85 or 86, couldn't say which with certainty, but it was while I was in secondary school*), the 'workstation' itself was still running DOS/Win1.x but all storage was on the network. I don't know if it was net booted or had DOS etc in ROM on the network card. * Although the network and classes were at the local college as some kind of crossover access, I recall another of the classes involved their lab of Apple IIe that had this weird gated access to the internet for email.
- NikkiA 3y agoReplying to self to correct myself. The Qi series (microchannel based 386 and 486, the very last apricot PCs) had 1.44MB floppies