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MAX 1 floppystation, introduced in early 1989

This strange cube was introduced in a magazine in March 1989; anyone knows if it was ever produced?

Features:

• one 5.25" and two 3.5" floppies


• low power consumption of the electronic control makes it posible to use three 5.25"-floppies with an A500 (according to a manufacturers statement)


• code lock


• track display showing current track and head


• track display switchable to any drive, also DF0:


• track display switchable to a "burst mode" required for some copy programs


• freezable track display; this requires a reboot for initialization when switching to another drive


• "code switch for different modes of the electronic control"


• the code switch allows to use any of the three drives as DF0: to DF3:


• up to ten physical drives can be assigned to one logical drive at the same time


• 40-track-mode for any drive for compatibility to 360KB-MS-Dos-floppies

Thanks to Rainer Schreurs