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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000's with High Density Drives!
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 09:32:38 GMT
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- George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
-
- : I had problems with floppy disks ages ago but not any recently (well over
- : 3 years). As for small, yes, speed could be better but is alright.
-
- Floppy speed is horribly slow. It's faster to let them download the data
- from your computer via modem when you take into account travel time.
-
-
- : ZIPs are not standard enough for everyone to be using yet and not
- : everyone has the option to write to CD-ROMs.
-
- : Zip drives would raise the price too much for the overall product (for
- : the lowend at least) and would raise software prices.
-
- I've been saying for a while that Zip drives would raise the machine and
- software prices to much also. The way I think they should ship machine
- is with a hard drive and CDROM then the user could choose if they want a
- floppy drive, Zip drive or whatever. CDROMs are a much better choice
- then Zips for software distribution, so they should be the LCD. If it's
- up to the buyer on which backup drive they choose, they can't bitch
- about their choice. Also AT could let the third party developers sell HD
- floppy drive. I can't see why anyone would pay $120-$140 for a HD floppy
- drive when they can get a Zip drive for $199.
-
-
- : I don't mind downloading stuff from the net or BBSs but when it comes
- : to backing up stuff from one computer to another or exchanging data
- : from one computer to a friend's computer, floppies still come in handy.
-
- I've taken the internal floppy drive out of my 4000. I don't use it and I
- can put something better in there. I hope the internal Zips are available
- soon. :)
-
-
- Chris Hall
-
-