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- From: dgrant@dgrant.peinet.pe.ca (Dennis Grant)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000's with High Density Drives!
- Date: 15 Jan 1996 17:01:36 GMT
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- In article <927.6585T1212T978@algonet.se> flundin@algonet.se (Fredrik Lundin) writes:
- > >Dr. Peter Kittel (peterk@combo.ganesha.com) 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.
- >
- > The DD floppies are becomming much more harder to find, and also not
- > any cheaper, if not more expensive. Distributors just don't import
- > and stock them anymore. Also the problems when transfering files from
- > and to MAC and/or PC exists..
- > So a move to HD-floppies, using standard HD-drives ASAP is one of the
- > important steps the new Amiga-Tech Amiga's should take.
-
- I'm going to second this.
-
- The only way to use an Amiga in an office/business environment is to be able
- to read/write the formats of the other machines in the office. When your
- machine isn't widely supported, you _have_ to be able to read and write to
- the more widely used systems' disks - they sure won't add that ability to
- theirs!
-
- No HD drives is just another obstacle between cross-platform data sharing.
-
- If it weren't for the HD drive in my 4000, I wouldn't be able to use it for
- work.
-
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- Dennis Grant
- dgrant@cycor.ca
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