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- From: nyle@cyber1.servtech.com (nyle landas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 22:14:26 GMT
- Organization: ServiceTech, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4d6mg2$f7v@murphy.servtech.com>
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- Maxwell Daymon (mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com) wrote:
- : Hans Guijt (hguijt@inter.NL.net) wrote:
- : : BTW. Somebody else spoke of giving consumers a choice of Zip or Jazz. That's
- : : great, but on what would software ship? Don't tell me you think 'both' is an
- : : acceptable answer...
-
- : I think of Zip as a replacement for the floppy. The Jaz (one 'z') drive
- : would be a nice 'extra' but I certainly don't consider it to be a viable
- : alternative to a standard replacement of the floppy drive.
-
- : Shed the floppy drive while the Amiga market is small. Imagine our 'base'
- : media being 100MB in size and 70 times faster than a floppy.
-
- What about backwards compatibility? I for one would like to be able to use
- all the old floppies I have lying around. Wouldn't it be wiser to choose a
- drive that support both larger removable media and floppies. But I for one
- don't want to see it on the low-end. That defeats the whole purpose of the
- low-end. It's a nice dream but I for one couldn't afford the afore
- mentioned $15 extra per software title. And who needs 100MGS of storage for
- a 10MB WordProcessor program.
-
- -Nyle
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- Build a better mousetrap and Bill Gates will steal all the Cheese.
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