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- From: jamesm@turtle.apana.org.au (James McArthur)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 14 Jan 1996 16:57:50 +0930
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- nyle landas (nyle@cyber1.servtech.com) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- Take a look at the PC world; how many new programmes are coming out on
- floppy disk? A large percentage of any new stuff on the PC is coming on
- CD-ROM. SO why not make the new Amiga's come with either a floopy
- drive, a CD-ROM adapter, and a coupon for a CD-ROM drive, or just a
- CD-ROM drive, with a discount on the cost of a new floppy drive.
-
- The lowend could be stuck with a cheap 2.8Mb floppy drive, and the high
- end could have a CD-ROM drive, (and maybe the Ultra-High End could a
- CD-WORM drive :-> )
-
- Just as long as whatever it is, it is easily upgradeable, without having
- to worry about keeping up with Paula or whatever!!
-
- : -Nyle
-
- : --
- : ----
- : Nyle F. Landas http://www.servtech.com/public/ami4000/
- : nyle@servtech.com ftp://ftp.servtech.com/pub/users/ami4000/
-
- : Amiga Users Page - http://www.servtech.com/public/ami4000/AmiUsers.html
- : Amiga Dealers Page - http://www.servtech.com/public/ami4000/AmiDlrs.html
-
- : Build a better mousetrap and Bill Gates will steal all the Cheese.
-
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