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- From: jamesm@turtle.apana.org.au (James McArthur)
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- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 16:53:11 +0930
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- Maxwell Daymon (mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com) wrote:
- : Chris Hall (chall@clover.cleaf.com) wrote:
- : : Think about it. Can you see AT making the Zip drive standard on the
- : : Amiga? We have problems getting them to listen to us on the SCSI port.
-
- : The sad part is, no I don't.
-
- : : If you had to choose between an Amiga with a hard drive and floppy drive
- : : or an Amiga with a hard drive and CDROM, knowing that you can buy any
- : : optional backup device you wanted, which would you choose.
-
- : The lesser of two evils, then? ;-)
-
- : : image to a tape drive then send it off to be duplicated? As far as I
- : : know there isn't a mass duplication service for Zips.
-
- : Chicken. Egg.
-
- : : If we keep saying SCSI should be on all Amigas that AT sales, maybe they
- : : will eventually listen to us.
-
- : Okay. SCSI should be on every Amiga that AT sells. How's that? In fact,
- : I'd probably settle for that - if Zips were a matter of plug n play for
- : any Amiga, there's still hope.
-
- Hang on a sec; cant the zip be connected to the parallel port? If so, why
- doesnt someone write a parallel driver for it, and bundle it with all new
- Amiga packs??
-
- Then all we need is some dealer who wants to bundle a Zip drive with the
- computer..
-