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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 00:47:24 GMT
- Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
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- Chris Hall (chall@clover.cleaf.com) wrote:
- : You didn't use a floppy to as the transfer medium to get the files from
- : the AmiNet, you used a modem or network. Why can't you just setup a BBS
- : so that the club members can do the same to their system. Modems are
- : cheap.
-
- A (decent) 28.8K modem is as expensive as a Zip drive, and annoyingly
- slow. Making hours worth of transfers a standard is not good (and would
- make phone lines needed which also cost - but monthly, not just one time)
-
- : If the PC market had to pay as much for DSHD floppies as the Amiga market
- : does, you would see them loose it in a hurry. Right now, it's just legacy
-
- Yes. Amiga: $134, PC: $33.
-
- : hardware that everyone is afraid to loose. I would imagine that you will
- : see them loose it soon. AT could lead the pack by doing it first.
-
- Agreed. PowerWave already offers a Zip. Amiga could do so more aggresively.
-
- : You don't need a CDR drive to mass produce CDs. You can write iso9660
- : files to tape and ship the tape off to be put on CD.
-
- Expensive for low quantities, and requires a tape drive. What if you
- merely want to distribute large multimedia project to club members? A
- 28.8K modem won't tranfer 52MB quickly, and with only a few phone lines,
- the club BBS would be heavily weighted down.
-
- : You can get a Pinnacle RCD-1000 for about $1000. If the CD dupication
- : costs are to much for a backyard developer, they need to go back to work
- : flipping burgers for a bit longer or taking out a small loan to get
-
- Why should anyone who wants to copy software to a few people have to turn
- it into a part time business (or make provisions for all the types of
- third party add ons)?
-
- : Someone that doesn't have the money to distribute software via CD, isn't
- : going to have the money to distribute software via floppy. Either way,
-
- I give floppies to friends all the time, I don't make a production out of
- it though.
-
- : they will have much of the same costs. They should consider using the
- : shareware method of distribution. In other words, BBS, then internet, etc.
-
- WAY TOO SLOW. 28.8K is *pathetic* considering some of the 24-bit image,
- sound, and movie files that are around today.
-
- : We shouldn't let NDOS disks hold us back. It's sort of like being held
- : hostage.
-
- :-( Yuck, isn't it?
-
- : Price, if your shooting for a low end machine. Zips run about $200, and
-
- No. Internal Zips for vendors result in an end-user cost of $159.
-
- : 170MB 2.5" hard drives run about $60. That difference translates into bigger
-
- This sounds like a Corporate Systems price quote. AT cannot rely on the
- price of *discontinued* and *dumped* and *overstocked* drive prices.
- These prices aren't even solid enough for a small run of machines.
-
- Zip would be slightly more expensive, but it would replace the floppy
- which I argued MUST be kept if another standard alternative couldn't be
- found.
-