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Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

>>> You can have two floppy drives, but they are hooked to the same
>>
>> Yes, I'm aware.
>>
>> I'm just saying here "Spec-wise" because you can have two controllers,
>> one at 0x3F0 and one at 0x370.
>
> Oh, ok.  Wasn't aware of this detail.
>
> Can't remember to have ever seen a pc with more than two floppy drives
> (as-in: physical hardware).  And even two floppy drives is pretty rare.
> Only in the early 90ies, while the transition from 5.25" floppies to
> 3.5" floppies happened, it was somewhat common to have two drives (one
> of each type).

Preteens multitasking... Copying W4r3z while surfing on FidoNet and 
running PCBoard on your 1040ST before catching school bus.

Remembering BBS life at 2400bps?
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