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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
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- Subject: Re: A4000's with High Density Drives!
- Date: 15 Jan 1996 11:03:47 GMT
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- George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
-
- : First you say the A1200 doesn't need a Hard Drive and now you are saying
- : floppy drives aren't important? They are still the lowest denominator
- : common to all computer types for exchanging data, without a floppy you
- : can rule out a lot of the emulators for other systems working that
- : require floppy access or the user needing to transfer files from one
- : computer to another. Floppies are also important in backing up Hard
- : Drives - try running a BBS without a floppy drive.
-
- Floppies are almost useless. Even the DSHD floppies are useless for backup.
- They are to small, slow and error prone for backup. I'm a sysop and I
- would never rely on them. I use Zips for temporary backup space and CDROMs
- for long term storage. As for them using them to exchange data, modems
- are much better for that. I would rather see them either bundle a
- modem or Zip drive.
-
- They should include a floppy port though, so people that need floppy
- drives can hook them up.
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- Chris Hall
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