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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 16:16:55 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- Maxwell Daymon (mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com) wrote:
- : Fine, but I think a solution to the HD problem is clear. It'd also make
- : adding a CD-ROM drive easier and cheaper than buying both a drive AND
- : custom interface. It'd also get rid of the crap standard IDE.
-
- IDE is a hack but it is a cheap hack. :) In the 3.5" HD category, IDE drives
- can be $100 cheaper than SCSI ones of the same size. 2.5" IDE hard drives were
- a mistake, the notebook market consists of ignorant loons who pay $$$$ for
- 386 class machines with batteries. :)
-
- SCSI CD-ROMS are more expensive than their ISA/IDE counterparts as well.
-
- On the other hand a cheap scsi chip would be a nice addition to the amiga for
- sure, you can buy cheap scsi interfaces for the PC for $80 CDN ($50 US). These
- are basically the same as the dataflyer 1200+/squirrel deals for the a1200
- except at half the price.
-
- : Even cheaper to integrate at the motherboard level, and the Amiga would
- : still be tied to a technology that should be dead.
-
- AT has to do something different than the competition. :)
-
- : Because it needs to be fixed, and this is cheap and solves many problems
- : that the Amiga is facing.
-
- Some. :)
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
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