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- Path: coranto.ucs.mun.ca!gnoel
- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 10:42:22 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4efjue$2ov@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <19960116.7BC3530.F0AB@obscurity.pd.mcs.net> <149858@cup.portal.com> <822390267.15220@hchworth.demon.co.uk> <149881@cup.portal.com>
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- Summary: Floppy drive fiasco
-
- In article <149881@cup.portal.com>,
- Gary Alan Peake <Gemini2@cup.portal.com> wrote:
- >>3) Hardware. The disk drive fiasco wasn`t good. For the few Amigans who
- >>actually thought about getting an A1200, the disk drive problem scared them
- >>off.
- >
- >
- >Why? I like being able to buy a computer with any size hard drive I want.
-
- He was talking about the floppy drive fiasco where the current software
- wouldn't work with the current AT selected/modified floppy drives. I
- could see this scaring away new buyers to the machine who have seen a
- friend's machine in use but didn't want to risk buying a machine they
- couldn't run most of the software off of. This would also have had an
- effect of older Amiga users upgrading to the A1200. The only blame for
- this, if it happened is on AT for not fully testing the machines/software
- out before selling them. Mind you I am sure this wasn't the main cause
- the of the machines not selling, especially in the UK.
-
- >Gary
- >-----------------------------------------
- >Gemini2@cup.portal.com 'Mystic Meg' | TEAM AMIGA is a grassroots
- > | movement designed to provide
- >Avid Supporter of Amiga Technologies | support to all Amiga users
- > | and to Amiga Technologies!
- >Charter Member ---> *TEAM AMIGA* |
- >-----------------------------------------
-
- This is much better suited with the opinions then some other nameless PC
- wannabe! :)
-
- -=*George*=-
-
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-