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Offline spaceman88

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While multi-disk games and copying were a lot better, the main reason I bought a second drive was to prevent the "Floppy Shuffle". That's where you would load Workbench and then try to run some program from Aminet or Fred Fish and you get "insert volume WB1.3" it whirrs for 1 second then "insert volume xxxxx" a second later "insert volume WB1.3" and this continues on for several minutes!! I've swapped disks maybe 20 times before the program will run. If you had a Hard Drive that would eliminate this problem, but an extra floppy was much cheaper in the 19080's.
 

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Re: Epic Amiga battle on osnews.com Extra Floppy vs No Extra Floppy!
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2012, 03:58:52 PM »
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I for one have read every post about this fascinating debate and I can't wait to learn about more minutia about external floppy disk drives


Great!! I'll send you a copy of my 589 page self published novel "My Life As A Floppy". You'll laugh, you'll cry, it will become part of you ;-).