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- From: "Stefano Agostinelli" <agos001@pn.itnet.it>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 21:33:54 +0100
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- Chris Hall wrote in comp.sys.amiga.misc about "Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!":
- > Floppies aren't virtually useless, they ARE useless. Much of the files people
- > move these days are much larger than what floppies can hold. The backup
- > device needs to be optional for the user. Most users will get one but they
- > can choose which one they want. If they want a Zip drive, a Jazz drive, or
- > floppy drive then let them but AT should have a CDROM and hard drive as the
- > LCD. Zip drives are nice but the distribution costs for developers would be
- > way to high. It's cheaper all the way around if they use CDROMs.
-
- ZIP+CD is impracticable imho.It costs more than FD+HD and what about when
- I have to change some files with a friend of mine?99.9% of today computers
- and workstations uses FD for file exchange...even SUNs have Floppy drives
- for that!
-
- A good thing however would be to have each new Amiga with a SCSI-2
- interface.
-
- > Iomega is going to have to license out the manufacturing of the media before
- > it'll ever drop and then it will take a couple of years. CDROMs are a much
- > better choice for distribution of software.
-
- Indeed they are but being read only they are useless for file exchange.
-
- > I think they will eventually see the light but I hope it doesn't take them to
- > long. They need to go ahead and make a clean break from floppies. I'm not
- > sure if the 1200+ is going to have a case redesign. They need to go ahead and
- > turn it into a CDROM/HD machine and make the floppy an optional add on. If I
- > had a choice of a machine that had a floppy plus hard drive or a CDROM plus
- > hard drive, I would jump on the CDROM/HD one in a second.
-
- Why not having new Amigas with SCSI-2 >and< a floppy drive? So the user
- can fit what he/she wants and already can use a convenient (while obsolete)
- medium for file exchange.
-
- Cheerio
- Stefano
-
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