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- From: goody@eskimo.com (Robert Goodlett)
- Subject: Re: A4000's with High Density Drives!
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- Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
- References: <48hd11$239@pellew.ntu.edu.au> <peterk.0jqx@combo.ganesha.com> <4ch32r$n97@idefix.eunet.fi> <peterk.0jxm@combo.ganesha.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 05:54:00 GMT
-
- In article <peterk.0jxm@combo.ganesha.com>,
- Dr. Peter Kittel <peterk@combo.ganesha.com> wrote:
- >In article <4ch32r$n97@idefix.eunet.fi> siren@dns.mikrobitti.fi (Janne Siren) writes:
- >>Dr. Peter Kittel (peterk@combo.ganesha.com) wrote:
- >>: Simple: Read here and in .hardware and find out that they are bad
- >>: hacks, working very unreliably.
- >>
- >>How about these Chinon HD drives?
- >
- >Chinon says they *can't* build them anymore, they in turn don't get
- >crucial parts for this variant anymore, they say.
- >
- >>I really support and appreciate your efforts, but I just can't see this
- >>HD drive issue as such an impossability.
- >
- >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.
-
-
- I recently bought Final Writer. It came on 9 disks. I would bet 4 disks
- would have been sufficient if HD were available.
- I don't have an infinite amount of space for 3.5" disks. The less I
- have to deal with the better.
- Unfortunately I don't see the pre PPC amigas ever having HD floppies
- as standard.
-
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