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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 20 Jan 1996 10:01:28 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4dqeho$s5i@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <19960108.77A4120.F5EA@obscurity.pd.mcs.net> <4de6u7$du6@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4dfsj7$6nj@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4djvt7$9vr@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Summary: Sound of Hard Drives
- Keywords: Hmm..
-
- In article <4djvt7$9vr@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
- Thomas Clancy <thom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:
- >On or about 16 Jan 1996 09:53:43 GMT, George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) did proclaim:
- >
- >( Installing one chip is not that expensive at a dealer Byron especially
- >( when warranty concerns are in question.
- >
- >George, this one would be. All the chips (except the roms) in the 1200
- >are Surface mounted and would require a fair amount of time/care. It's
- >not a job for the light hearted, or half the technicians I know. And
- >at $69.00/hr for most Electronics shops, it would cost a small fortune.
- >I wouldn't want anyone that hadn't done this before, and especially if
- >they don't have access to the parts they might destroy in the process.
- >=)
-
- More the reason to get a dealer (at least) to do the work as if you shag
- it up yourself you are out the computer, the money for repair and
- possibly shipping also. We do not have any dealers in town now,
- hopefully this will change over the next little while though.
-
- >( What are you talking about? Why would someone have to compare a new
- >( Amiga to an old one? If it is a new buyer, then who cares about the old
- >( Amiga 8 bit sound when they would be comparing it to the PC 16 bit sound?
- >
- >Everyone that wants to spend 1-4k on a machine and actually have
- >software for it when they buy it.
-
- So you are saying if the people want to get the newer machine with
- improved sound but is not totally compatible and/or doesn't offer any
- software taking advantage of the new sound.. yet.. and they don't see
- much difference between the Amiga 8 bit and 16 bit sound, then they would
- go and buy an Amiga with 8 bit sound? What about these get discontinued
- over the next while if the A1200+ (IF it has new audio) takes its place?
-
- >( >Sure it is, never said it wasn't. Atari ST, yeah look. :)
- >
- >( Not now as it is not made anymore but for awhile the ST was preferred
- >( over the Amiga for its music programs and a lot of musicians used the ST,
- >
- >And beta was a much superior media than VHS, too. But it didn't really
- >survive. You have to give the people what they want, not necessarily
- >(sp?) what is "best", to survive.
-
- The only reason VHS won out over the much more superior Beta machines was
- that it was a cheaper standard that gave almost as good results.. this is
- the Amiga of today except VHS machines got advertised a lot more.
-
- >( >On a c64, George, hardly the same thing. :) Anyway, you have to learn how to
- >
- >( Why are you being computer specific? A hard drive is a hard drive no
- >
- >George, what he means by this (my interpretation) is that it's all
- >relative. That is, you'd appreciate a HD (and prefer) over a floppy
- >when you have to start using 11MB programs. Hell, a full install of
- >Word Perfect for windows is ~40MB. 60MB for WinFaxPro! Try swapping
- >out all those floppies ;')
-
- I am not saying these people on that platform only use floppies and those
- programs would never be able to survive swapping the floppies anyways I
- would assume but they are at least shipped on floppies and/or a CD-ROM.
- Most if not all PCs come standard with a Hard Drive thus all software is
- wrote to run off the Hard Drive where space requires it to, if I were a
- PC user, I'd use the Hard Drive a majority of the time to.. for that
- matter, any system with a Hard Drive, one uses it the most as I do with
- my Hard Drive BUT I still need the floppies (in my setup) for making
- backups and transfering things easily from one computer to another
- without having to go through a modem. It is only logical to say that
- users with Hard Drive systems will use the Hard Drive more but
- distribution of software, apart from CD-ROM, still requires floppies to
- be distributed cheaply and moving data from many computer types to one
- can easily be done via floppies so their importance is still there.
-
- -=*George*=-
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