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- From: tlbelding@aol.com (TLBelding)
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- Subject: Re: A1200+
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 12:08:57 -0500
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- In article <4d34cg$srv@nyheter.chalmers.se>, SA9418@IDA.UTB.HB.SE (Martin
- Caspersson) writes:
-
- >Some form of removable and writable media must be included, but it
- >doesn't have to be a Floppydrive. I say dump both the floppy and
- >Harddrive and put a ZIP drive in there instead. This wouldn't cost
- >more than including a harddrive and you get both the benefits from a
- >Harddrive (Lot's of storage) and a Floppydrive (removable media).
-
- I hadn't thought of that. That's actually a kind of neat idea. I have a
- couple of concerns, though. If you use the Zip instead of a hard drive,
- how do you back it up? All your important files are on the Zip and you
- have nothing to copy them onto -- or at least, not without WAY too much
- disk swapping! Also, the Zip is rather slow by the side of most hard
- drives these days, so performance would suffer. Granted, you are talking
- about a low-end system, but it's still a problem.
-
- Besides, hard drives of moderate size have become inexpensive. A 200MB
- hard drive plus a Zip drive is a great combination. It's really more than
- the sum of its parts!
-
- I dunno. I've been thinking about it, and I'm not sure we /should/ have a
- standard for removable mass storage. We've already got CDROM for mass
- distribution of software. So, your removable rewritable storage is just
- for backups and personal data archives. When you consider the range of
- systems people have, and all the uncertainly over different formats in the
- marketplace, maybe the best thing is to simply say all Amigas have an
- external SCSI connector, and the user can plug whatever he wants into it.
- That may be Zip, Jaz, SyQuest, mangeto-optical disks, tape drives. The
- user can pick the storage that's best for his system, and Amiga Tech don't
- have to bet the farm on some format that might fizzle in the long run.
-
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