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by chiph 2430 days ago
Here's a photo of a 520. It's the "Hard Disk" port all the way on the right.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Rear_por...

It was possible to hand-make a replacement for Atari's external floppy drive (round DIN connector on the right) because Atari wanted too much money for theirs. Having two floppies meant that compiling went from several disk-swaps to no-swap happiness.