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A-500 and HD floppy Q's

    16-Jan-93 19:36:54
Sb: A-500 and HD floppy Q's
Fm: Len Lekx 73300,723
To: All
All the Commodore releases are saying that the newer high-density (1.44-Meg) drives cannot be used with the A-500. Question: Is this a flaw in the hardware itself, or just that the new drives are not laid out to fit into the 500's case? (i.e. if I rebuilt my 500 into a desktop or tower case, would the HD drives actually WORK with it?) When I do (eventually) go ahead and re-case my computer, it might be nice (since my 500's original disk drive is 7 years old, and due for a refit) to put a 1.44 Meg drive in there instead of a 720K one.