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- From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@primenet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: HD floppy despair (was: Re: AT1200 DD to HD floppy)
- Date: 25 Feb 1996 23:22:01 -0700
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-
- The mortal Robert Poole wrote:
-
- : Good thing high density floppies never caught on big with Amiga software
- : distributors. It's just as well. With the popularity of Zip drives, maybe
- : Amigans can turn to the Zip as the next big affordable software distribution
- : medium for ordinary people.
-
- No, they should turn to CD-ROM. They are practically throwing away 1x
- CD-ROM drives these days. It's cheaper for Amigans to get a CD-ROM drive
- than a zip drive. Lightwave 4.0 for Amiga was a CD (I suppose there was
- a floppy version). Other developers seem to be considering CD for Amiga
- distribution as well.
-
-