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- From: J_Plewka@Amtrash.comlink.de (Joern Plewka)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000's with High Density Drives!
- Date: 20 Jan 96 01:01:20 +0100
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- mennosto@zeelandnet.nl (menno stormink) -> "Re: A4000's with High Density Drives!"
- (12.01.1996)
- > peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel) wrote:
- >
- > (stuff deleted)
- >
- > >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.
- >
- > Mmm..
- > It's important for me, for one it's nice to be able to read PC
- > HD-disks, second it makes it twice as easy to install programs to the
- > Harddisk (or are you planning to sell Cd-rom or Zip-drive with every
- > Amiga 8') ).
- > I just wish that Escom shops in Holland sold Amigas (small hint).
-
- I`m using an old Quantum52s as floppy. No problem to format it for
- MAC or PC. A Floppy is more than poor...no difference if 880, 1760
- or 3520kB...it`s much too small for everything, IMHO.
-
- If my HD runs over it will be backuped on a goldfish...via our portable
- subsystem. SCSI for A1200!!! Much less need for disks...
-
- I have to exchange data from home to my school account...must times I
- use my pointprogramm to do so. I tried to transport my www page from
- home to the accout...but there is a PC diskstation and my files were
- truncated to 8+3:-(( next day I sent it all via E-Mail...
-
- The new A1200 won`t need a floppy if it ships with HD and Software
- pre-installed on CD. All Software should ship on CD...it`s a little
- cheaper than HD space. Something like CD-Write should be included....
-
- If you have to do a local copy, envoy is much easier...even with
- parnet. I`ve got a few amigas but only one has a diskdrive...I
- don`t need it for anything else than service, if one machine crashes.
- Therefore it`s very important the new A1200 will boot its CDs but
- that feature is no problem (CD32).
-
- In past my software came von anywhere but now it is on Aminet or
- on CDs like Aminet or MeetingPearls. On the other side A1200 is a
- game machine and needs a floppy because of the **cking concept....
- playing from disks...hopefully the games will be available as
- CD32 version.
-
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