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- From: nyle@cyber1.servtech.com (nyle landas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000's with High Density Drives!
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 17:11:35 GMT
- Organization: ServiceTech, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4djak7$ruv@murphy.servtech.com>
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- Diab Jerius (dj@pelf) wrote:
- : Dr. Peter Kittel (peterk@combo.ganesha.com) wrote:
- : : In article <4ch32r$n97@idefix.eunet.fi> siren@dns.mikrobitti.fi (Janne Siren) writes:
- : :
- : : 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
-
- : Yikes. I don't mean to sound rude, but in the real world, when one
- : has to exchange data via floppies with other machines, *all of which*
-
- Hear! Hear! HD drives are a necessity it's understandable they are not in
- the A1200 but the A1200+? What about the new low-end PowerAmiga is Dr. K
- going to suggest we all use LD drives forever?
-
- : Sometimes it's a helluva lot easier to exchange floppies than hook up
- : a network or run a null modem cable. Pragmatism often wins over
- : elegance, and the ability to read and write HD floppies is a real
- : necessity.
-
- If AmiT is trying to shatter the game playing image of the Amiga then
- claiming that putting in a HD drive that won't run some older dloppy based
- games is a bad idea is not the way to go.
-
- -Nyle
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