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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
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- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 13 Jan 96 11:11:35 +0500
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- On or about 13-Jan-96 05:37:21 Maxwell Daymon typed the following words about
- "Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!". My reply is thus...
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- MD> Chris Hall (chall@clover.cleaf.com) wrote:
- MD>: Stefano Agostinelli (agos001@pn.itnet.it) wrote:
- MD>: : ZIP+CD is impracticable imho.It costs more than FD+HD and what about
- MD>: I never said Zip+CD, I said Hard Drive+CD, which is very pratical.
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- MD> That offers no standardized solution for interchange. You'd need a floppy
- MD> at least in addition to the HD+CD.
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- MD>: : A good thing however would be to have each new Amiga with a SCSI-2
- MD>: : interface.
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- MD>: I agree, which is why many of us have been saying that forever. Maybe A
- MD>: will hear us eventually.
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- MD> I'll just quote the above to drive the point home. ;-)
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- MD>: Why not give the users a choice. Give them a hard drive and CDROM drive
- MD>: then give them the option to buy which ever writable/backup device they
- MD>: want instead of forcing them to buy a floppy if they need it or not.
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- MD> Primarily because it would destandardize the 'portable' media, hence
- MD> causing no common ground for private personal exchange.
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- MD>: think about it, they would realize that the special DSHD floppies that
- MD>: are needed are more expensive than a 2X CDROM drive and a bit over half
- MD>: much as a Zip drive. Also floppies are to small to distribute software
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- MD> I don't know AT's price, but when I look at a DSHD floppy for $134 and a
- MD> Zip drive for $159 (internal)... It makes me wonder...
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- This is just speculation, there is no internal ZIP drive (yet). :<)
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- MD>: perfect for distribution of software. So every Amiga should have a CDRO
- MD>: drive. Also all Amigas need a hard drive to give the user active writab
- MD>: storage space.
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- MD> This is where I disagree - reason stated above. It wouldn't be TOO much
- MD> more to put a Zip drive in and get a standard for personal exchange (and
- MD> cheap additional space) in the process.
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- MD>: need them. So, give them a choice, let them buy the type of backup
- MD>: storage they want or need. This choice could be in the form of either a
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- MD> Please: It's not just "backup" - a Zip drive is as fast as the Quantum
- MD> drive that were put into Amiga 3000's (in my experience). There's no
- MD> reason that I can see not to use this instead of a HD in low end models.
- MD> It will function PERFECTLY as an HD replacement, and if demands grow an
- MD> HD or more Zip disks would be perfect.
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- MD>: AT could do packs, sort of like the game packs, that include floppy
- MD>: drives or Zip drives. If you need a floppy drive, buy the floppy pack.
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- MD> Then you're market is split between people with floppy, zip, and tape
- MD> drives such that they can't exchange data. Not good. If you throw the Zip
- MD> out, you MUST put back the DSDD floppy minimally.
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