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- From: dj@pelf (Diab Jerius)
- Subject: Re: A4000's with High Density Drives!
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- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 04:16:24 GMT
-
- Dr. Peter Kittel (peterk@combo.ganesha.com) wrote:
- : In article <4ch32r$n97@idefix.eunet.fi> siren@dns.mikrobitti.fi (Janne Siren) writes:
- :
- : Such is life. And I for myself don't see a HD drive as such a
- : necessity... Yes, we have more and more Amigas coming with harddisks
- : from start (the Escom shops in Germany seem to sell only the harddisk
- : model), so floppies in general decrease in importance.
-
- Yikes. I don't mean to sound rude, but in the real world, when one
- has to exchange data via floppies with other machines, *all of which*
- have HD drives, it's downright shortsighted to claim that HD drives
- are not a necessity. I can't tell you the number of times that I've
- had to stop people from handing me HD floppies filled to the gills
- with data. It's also quite embarassing, as the Amiga is the only
- machine since maybe 1990 which ships with DD drives standard and no
- easy (and affordable) means of upgrading to HD.
-
- Sometimes it's a helluva lot easier to exchange floppies than hook up
- a network or run a null modem cable. Pragmatism often wins over
- elegance, and the ability to read and write HD floppies is a real
- necessity.
-
- Diab
-
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