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- On 15 Jan 1996, George Noel wrote:
-
- > >Such is life. And I for myself don't see a HD drive as such a
- > >necessity... Yes, we have more and more Amigas coming with harddisks
- > >from start (the Escom shops in Germany seem to sell only the harddisk
- > >model), so floppies in general decrease in importance.
- >
- > 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.
-
- ALthough I have 3 floppy drives on my BBS machine, I don't use them to
- 'run' the BBS as such - I certainly don't bother backing up to floppies.
- (The last time I backed up the BBS (not the file areas but everything
- else) it was about 26 megs, and I don't fancy backing up that to floppies
- all the time. For backups I use other hard drives (heaps of partitions on
- my system) and while it is a possiblity that the whole hard drive could
- go down, its more likely that one partition could get corrupted and the
- others would be unaffected. (And for ultimate saftey I copy the backup
- file to a ZIP.
-
- I certainly would never dream of trying to backup several hundreds of
- megs of file areas to floppies, but ZIP's are practical for that.
-
- >
- > I really hope the new A1200+ can still use a Hard Drive internal and a
- > floppy drive, preferrably the floppy still standard or if not, at least the
- > one you add to it afterwards being recognized as DH0:
-
- I think you mean DF0: - DH0: is an older convention for the boot hard
- drive (Why did C= go to HD0: and HD1: in the 1200? I guess we'll never know.
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