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Andrew S. Tanenbaum Quotes: With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.
         

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.


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