The floppy drive
General
The BEETLE /XL can, if desired, be supplied with a 3.5" floppy drive. The
LED indicator always lights up when the system accesses the drive.
Floppy disks can be used for a variety of purposes, such as:
loading programs
backing up data (e.g. daily sales figures),
access control (such as an “electronic key”).
The floppy drive
You can write-protect a diskette to protect your data from being
inadvertently overwritten.
Data can be written
to the diskette.
Data cannot be
written to the diskette.
The BEETLE /XL components
The floppy drive
GB - 35