English Amiga Board - View Single Post

Jope · 06 August 2013, 19:22

They were just adhering to the Commodore specifications back then. With the advent of 1" high 3.5" disks they weren't as bad current hogs as they used to be, so drives without external PSUs started showing up.

06 August 2013, 19:22	#18
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,868	They were just adhering to the Commodore specifications back then. With the advent of 1" high 3.5" disks they weren't as bad current hogs as they used to be, so drives without external PSUs started showing up.