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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The TI99 had an (optional) external expansion box that allowed it to use floppy disks.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Never saw the floppy external, but at some point we ended up with a peripheral that read data off cassettes.