Nascom 2 floppy drive usefulness...

Urgh. I can't decide whether to add a connector for a floppy disk to the connector panel on this Nascom 2 case that I'm building. I don't *have* a FDC board for it anyway, plus I only have a 2-slot backplane (at the moment; there's room in the box for 7 or 8 boards probably). I just can't decide whether to make the case connector panel with room for a floppy connector, with an actual connector but not hooked up to anything, or not bother designing it with even the space present (and a new connector panel will need to be made to add a suitable connector) Someone think for me :) Do Nascom 2 owners out there typically have an FDC board and use disks for everything, or do they just stick with the tape interface on the machine's CPU board? What's the maximum cable length for a floppy drive anyway? ps. On the keyboard front I've decided to go for a 25-way D connector, even though it seems like I could just about get away with a 15-pin one - there's lots of room above the keys on the keyboard to add a few status LEDs, switches etc. if some future owner wanted to do so, so having the potential capacity for an extra 9 lines to the keyboard might be handy... cheers :) Jules