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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 05:48:12 GMT
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- John Hendrikx (john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- : In a message of 10 Jan 96 Maxwell Daymon wrote to All:
- : MD> Shed the floppy drive while the Amiga market is small. Imagine our
- : MD> 'base' media being 100MB in size and 70 times faster than a floppy.
-
- : Eh, 70 times? Floppies aren't THAT slow you know :-)
-
- Okay, 40 - 52 times faster.
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- I get like ~15K-20K/sec from my floppy, and almost 800K/sec from my Zip.
- I haven't tested my floppy drive speed in a long time.
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