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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000's with High Density Drives!
- Date: 15 Jan 1996 07:00:00 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4dcu1g$u2n@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <48hd11$239@pellew.ntu.edu.au> <peterk.0jqx@combo.ganesha.com> <4ch32r$n97@idefix.eunet.fi> <peterk.0jxm@combo.ganesha.com>
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- Summary: From Hard Drive to Floppy Drives
- Keywords: Hmm..
-
- 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.
-
- Is it they DON'T get or CAN'T get? If they DON'T get them, CAN they get
- them?
-
- >>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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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:
-
- >
- >--
- >Best Regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // Visit http://www.amiga.de
- >Private Site in Frankfurt, Germany \X/ Email to: peterk@combo.ganesha.com
- >Employed at Amiga Technologies GmbH in Bensheim, Germany
- >Much too little time for news and email, sorry. In memoriam Konrad Zuse.
-
- -=*George*=-
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