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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 13 Jan 1996 00:37:21 GMT
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- Chris Hall (chall@clover.cleaf.com) wrote:
- : Stefano Agostinelli (agos001@pn.itnet.it) wrote:
- : : ZIP+CD is impracticable imho.It costs more than FD+HD and what about when
- : I never said Zip+CD, I said Hard Drive+CD, which is very pratical.
-
- That offers no standardized solution for interchange. You'd need a floppy
- at least in addition to the HD+CD.
-
- : : A good thing however would be to have each new Amiga with a SCSI-2
- : : interface.
-
- : I agree, which is why many of us have been saying that forever. Maybe AT
- : will hear us eventually.
-
- I'll just quote the above to drive the point home. ;-)
-
- : Why not give the users a choice. Give them a hard drive and CDROM drive,
- : then give them the option to buy which ever writable/backup device they
- : want instead of forcing them to buy a floppy if they need it or not.
-
- Primarily because it would destandardize the 'portable' media, hence
- causing no common ground for private personal exchange.
-
- : think about it, they would realize that the special DSHD floppies that
- : are needed are more expensive than a 2X CDROM drive and a bit over half as
- : much as a Zip drive. Also floppies are to small to distribute software on
-
- I don't know AT's price, but when I look at a DSHD floppy for $134 and a
- Zip drive for $159 (internal)... It makes me wonder...
-
- : perfect for distribution of software. So every Amiga should have a CDROM
- : drive. Also all Amigas need a hard drive to give the user active writable
- : storage space.
-
- This is where I disagree - reason stated above. It wouldn't be TOO much
- more to put a Zip drive in and get a standard for personal exchange (and
- cheap additional space) in the process.
-
- : need them. So, give them a choice, let them buy the type of backup
- : storage they want or need. This choice could be in the form of either a
-
- Please: It's not just "backup" - a Zip drive is as fast as the Quantum
- drive that were put into Amiga 3000's (in my experience). There's no
- reason that I can see not to use this instead of a HD in low end models.
- It will function PERFECTLY as an HD replacement, and if demands grow an
- HD or more Zip disks would be perfect.
-
- : AT could do packs, sort of like the game packs, that include floppy
- : drives or Zip drives. If you need a floppy drive, buy the floppy pack. If
-
- Then you're market is split between people with floppy, zip, and tape
- drives such that they can't exchange data. Not good. If you throw the Zip
- out, you MUST put back the DSDD floppy minimally.
-