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Re: Mystery card!

colin.williamson@dino.UUCP (Colin Williamson) writes:

> If you look on page 36 of the January-Febuary issue of II Alive, you'll
> see a mystery card! What is this? Some people say it's an IBM disk
> connector. I think it would be cool if it was a 486 on a card.

It is an IBM-type floppy controller.  It was announced on GEnie; it's no 
longer a secret.  Remember that II Alive is old news (esp. since they 
were late with this issue)  Word is it can control 720K, 1440K and 2880K 
drives, which of course are dirt cheap (compared to Apple drives).

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