Epic Amiga battle on osnews.com Extra Floppy vs No Extra Floppy!

[runequester]

ALmost everyone I knew had 1 external. I don't know if many people had more than one.

I have a hard time thinking of many games that were just 1 floppy.

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A few Poles posting here so I am curious: I have heard mention from a friend who grew up in Chechoslovakia, that machines with 68K processors were not sold to the communist bloc, due to the power of the processor, and its suitability for military use. Any truth to that?

Could you get apple, atari or amiga machines before 91 from import shops? (assuming you had saved up of course)

If the Amiga situation in Europe was the same as the C64 situation, I'll believe that external floppy drives were rare there. In Europe the datasette remained the main data storage device for the C64 and external floppy drives were a lot more rare there --- in fact in Europe there were all sorts of fast loader devices/software for making datasette loading faster. Here in Canada (and I assume the USA) most people dumped their datasettes when upgrading from the VIC-20 to a nice new C64 with 1541 drive.

Europe is sort of a funny thing. What was typical in scandinavia wouldn't be typical in Italy etc.

At least from personal experience in Denmark, external floppies were quite common. Hard drives somewhat less so.

[runequester]

Thanks for the information, much appreciated

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Im curious. For a 1 meg machine, does 2 external drives cause any trouble running software?

I remember the manual for my floppy drive warning about memory use when you have multiple drives, but I never really thought about it, and I only had one in any event.