There is an epic (well okay, for the few, the proud, the Amigans...) battle going on over at OSNews.com in a news item about Icaros. I thought it was funny.
Basically one person is arguing that external floppy drives were extremely common, and very useful because a lot of games were multiple disks, and disk swapping was a pain.
The other person says that external floppy drives were too expensive and that there weren't really that many multi-floppy games, and even if there were, they weren't very popular!
So far there really has only been one other person who has piped in that said external floppy drives were pretty common.
Join in the battle! http://www.osnews.com/comments/26095
Really, I remember back in the day, my brother had bought the A500 off of a friend of his, and he had an external floppy drive, as did my friend and his older brother (which by the way, at one point his older brother decided it'd be a good idea to try out the null modem connection to play stunt car racer, and he connected the parallel port to the serial port, causing smoke to rise up from my friend's A500... well he got the fatter agnus upgrade for free out of it (well if memory serves me correctly)).
The external floppy drive my brother had ended up dying on him, so I'm going to side with the "they were common, but they're rare now because of high failure rate."
slaapliedje
Hi,
Don't know about your groups, but everybody in my group had four 3.5 floppy drives and at least one 5.25 drive. Later we all bought 5-10 meg hard drives, that's right you young whipper snappers I said megabyte, not gigabyte hard drives. Paid about $100 a megabyte too!!! (ok a little less I paid $495, but there was shipping charges and insurance don't forget).
smerf
