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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: HD floppy despair (was: Re: AT1200 DD to HD floppy)
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 14:13:42 GMT
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- Glenn Saunders (krishna@primenet.com) wrote:
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- : The mortal Robert Poole wrote:
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- : : 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.
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- CDROMs are definitly the way to go. Large cheap storage that lasts almost
- forever.
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- Anyone seen the price of CDRecorders? It makes me sick because I got one
- last summer, just before they dropped in price.
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- Chris Hall
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