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- From: ajackson@alladin.demon.co.uk (Action Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000's with High Density Drives!
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 16:33:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <821464508.6017@alladin.demon.co.uk>
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- peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel) wrote:
-
- >In article <4ch32r$n97@idefix.eunet.fi> siren@dns.mikrobitti.fi (Janne Siren) writes:
- >>Dr. Peter Kittel (peterk@combo.ganesha.com) wrote:
- >>: Simple: Read here and in .hardware and find out that they are bad
- >>: hacks, working very unreliably.
- >>
- >>How about these Chinon HD drives?
-
- >Chinon says they *can't* build them anymore, they in turn don't get
- >crucial parts for this variant anymore, they say.
-
- >>I really support and appreciate your efforts, but I just can't see this
- >>HD drive issue as such an impossability.
-
- >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.
-
- Please dont give us DD floppys. They are absolutly useless. Cant read
- MAC data (ShapeShifter). Virtually all PC floppys are HD thus cant
- transfer PC data.
-
- A more sensiable option be to provide a ext/int floppy port and let
- users who WANT floppy to source them. I know that powercomputing HD
- floppys are not relaible but people who want them and buy such
- devices. People who are happy with DD drives (games etc) can buy 3rd
- party DD drives (int or ext). That way you are not belittling the
- machine in the eyes of the world by providing a substandard standard
- device. Let the buyer chose. Just dont include it...
- I dont have a floppy drive in my SGI and I dont complain...
-
- Instead it may be more worthwhile to include 3.5" harddisk in every
- machine with the OS pre installed...
- Better Still, botable CD-ROM drives with WB on CD. From that CD also
- have the installation tools so that WB could be installed onto
- Harddisks for people that have them.
-
-
-
- >--
- >Best Regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // Visit http://www.amiga.de
- >Private Site in Frankfurt, Germany \X/ Email to: peterk@combo.ganesha.com
- >Employed at Amiga Technologies GmbH in Bensheim, Germany
- >Much too little time for news and email, sorry. In memoriam Konrad Zuse.
-
- While I have your attention I would like to address a few points.
-
- 1)
- A1400 (and dont call it A1300 or A1200+) should be in a pizza box. No
- trap door but have the CPU on a daughter board (allowing easy upgrade
- even to PPC). MC68030 at 28 or 33 Mhz. AGA is fine (Its only an
- intermediate/beginners machine). Bootable CD-ROM drive. Space
- internally for 3.5" HD. Proper detached keyboard (small A4000 type
- connector). Simm Sockets on the mother board. 2xPCMCIA-II at real
- (allowing people to add Modem, SCSI or Ethernet easily). One or Two
- Zorro/Video Slots (if costs allow but not a pre-requisits as we would
- have two PCMCIA). {Zorro should be phased out in favour of PCI for the
- PCC platforms). 2Mb Chip RAM. 2Mb Fast RAM. Connectors at back: Video,
- Par, Ser, Mouse, Joystick, Floppy, 2x PCMCIA, Keyboard, Left & Right
- Audio out. Mono Audio In (it is a Multimedia Machine). Initally sell
- bundled with monitor.
-
- 2)
- A4200. Keep the old A4000. We need a machine thats a desktop. Replace
- IDE with SCSI. Throw in a S3 or other based Graphics chipset on the
- mother board. Again CD ROM as primary drive and not floppy.
-
- 3)
- A4000T. Yes we need a high end machine. Again drop the Floppy and put
- in the CD-ROM. Drop the IDE interface. It will clean up the ROM and
- make space for improvements.
-
-
-
-