[comp.sys.ibm.pc] External drive on Tandy 1000SX

nr3m@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Matthew A Henry) (09/23/89)

I have a friend who has a Tandy 1000SX with 2-360K floppies, a 
20M internal hard drive, a 286 accelerator card, serial card, and
an internal modem.  The hard drive is controlled by a card in one of
the slots and, I assume, the floppies are controlled by a controller
on the motherboard.  Therefore 4 of the 5 expansion slots are filled.
He would like to add an external 1.44M disk drive, but has been told
by several vendors that this is impossible.  Does anyone know why this
would not work?  Couldn't he just add another floppy controller that
would support a 1.44M floppy, and has a port comming out the back to 
connect to the drive?

Any thoughts E-mailed or posted would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt.

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