> Commodore produced a great many Amiga models, but for several years the gold standard was an Amiga 500 expanded with half a meg of RAM (bringing the total to a full megabyte) and an external floppy drive (bringing the total number to two)<p>Indeed, I had that very setup, but with a little twist... I still have my very weird oddity which is an external, non-official, 5"1/4 (not 3"1/2, like most people had) floppy drive. Among our group of friends we'd all do that because, at that time and in the EU at least, 5"1/4 floppies were so much cheaper than the 3"1/2 ones that for the price of about 3 boxes of 3"1/2 floppies we could buy 3 boxes of 5"1/4 floppies <i>and</i> the external 5"1/4 floppy disk drive reader (which I take it were assembled by amateur/hobbyist: they didn't look anything like official drives and were very raw, bought through friends-of-friends-of-friends).<p>Now that Amiga Internet forums are flourishing people have accepted that this was a thing (there are even rare pictures of the thing) but in the past I've had Amiga users explain me that this didn't exist and that I was seeing things (!).<p>To make the matter even more confusing Commodore did sell <i>official</i> 5"1/4 drives for the Amiga too, but these were different.<p>The "bootleg" 5"1/4 were, for all matter and purpose, identical to the 3"1/2 ones and we'd install a switch on the Amiga to decide if we were booting from the 3"1/2 or 5"1/4 and the OS had zero way to tell the difference.