TEAC FD-55GFR = Quad Density?

[Dave Dunfield]

>>More and more machines are showing up without physical support (ie:
>>a select) for drive B: ... I have two Intel P3 board which do not
>>drive the B: select (which is very annoying since these are two of
>>the best systems for handling oddball formats with Imagedisk).
>>
>>Floppy drives are disappearing completely from some new machines,
>>and I doubt it will be long before the controller disappears along
>>with them (if it hasn't started already).
>>
>>  
>>
>That I suspect will  still be built into the support chips since it will 
>be too much trouble
>to remove it. Floppies are now a extra option -- I had to have new 
>computer built with one.
>Everybody is going to R/W DVD's now..

First the drives/cables go, then the connectors (why pay for a connector
on the board that "nobody wants") - eventually the FDC itself may go
when new chipsets appear (next round of CPU).

Me: I hanging on to my stash of P1/P2 full ISA machines...!

Regards,
Dave
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