Re: Should I get two floppy drives?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Warren Ernst wrote:
> If I may quote to you from the Beagle Bros "The Big Tip Book for the
> Apple II Series" (C. 1986) page 166:
>
> Why buy more than one disk drive?
> 1. You can make faster disk copies.
> 2. You can use certain software that requires two drives.
> 3. You will have a backup drive when one goes bad (it happens).
> 4. You have immediate access to twice the data.
> 5. You can get rid of that extra $300 in the dresser drawer.
> 6. If you have an Apple Macintosh and were wondering when this book is
> going to help you, you have just found out.
>
> Even almost twenty years later, I still think in many ways that Beagle
> Bros was the best job I ever had...
>
> -Warr

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appeared to be having!  ;-)

-michael

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