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- From: lhighbar@umabnet.ab.umd.edu (Lane A Highbarger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Hack for PC-->Amiga floppy drive?
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 11:09:46 -0500
- Organization: University of Maryland at Baltimore
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- Mike Farren <farren@shore.net> wrote:
-
- >Matt Anderson writes:
-
- [ PC HD disk for Ami, Dell? ]
-
- >False. The only way to do high-density disks on an Amiga, lacking
- >the special controller mentioned above (and I don't even know if
- >anyone's ever done it - could have, it wouldn't be at all difficult,
- >one 8751 would handle the job, I think), is to have a drive that
- >will spin at half-speed, which is how the Commodore HD drives
- >did it. The only firm that ever manufactured such a thing, as
- >far as I know, is Chinon.
-
- I have a Dell HD drive for my Amiga 3k, just got it from Software Hut, my
- guess would be though, that is was made specifically for Her (the whole
- line, not mine). The cable is a serious hack, with a somewhat cruddy
- connector and non-directional, but IT WORKS (most importantly, with my
- AMax and PC disks). Will anyone start distributing Software on HD disks
- ever or even CD ROM?
-
- Later,
-
- Lane A. Highbarger | Budweiser, the choice of amphibians ...
- | Windows, the choice of lemmings ...
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