I know that probabally the end is in sight for the 3-1/2" floppy, but everytime I have to make a 34p ribbon cable up for a floppy, I curse those IBM engineers who in their infinite wisdom screwed up a perfectly good system. Anyone who has had to make a cable up know what I mean, slitting the cable and twisting the conductors over so that the addressing is OK.
Actually the floppy manufactures back in the 80's had already allowed to put up to four floppies on the 34p ribbon without any problem, just as hard drives are done today.
But those IBM guys, I guess figured that it was too hard to set a jumper on the drive to enable 1,2,3 or 4 so they dreamed up this stupid method so that you can install up to two floppies without the pressure of changing the address jumper.
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Al