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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
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- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 18:17:17 GMT
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- Maxwell Daymon (mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com) wrote:
- : As I said, I think the Zip is well on its way to replacing the floppy
- : drive, and Amiga Technologies could be one of the first (or last) to adopt
- : the technology.
-
- Something will replace the floppy drive and soon, I wouldn't argue with that,
- in fact many companies/institutions use writeable CDROMs instead already.
- Perhaps Zip drives will be popular for a while but no one knows how long they
- will last before something better comes along. If you have a zip drive on a pc
- you can take it out and replace it with something better, software runs from
- the hard drive and booting from such media doesn't matter. If you have a
- plastic case around a zip drive in a a1200 style model you are almost
- guaranteed that something else won't fit in there if you want to replace it.
- For the high end sure, you can do anything there.
-
- Other than that though I would prefer anything else other than a floppy drive
- to go into the NEW models AT plans on producing for the low end. What would
- help a lot in this area is if selecting df1: (whatever) as the boot device
- from the boot menu would mean you could play a game from df1:, as it stands
- games still ask for df0:. Basically, whatever you put in the machine as the
- default will be the only thing games will take into account. Swapping floppies
- to play a game is no longer as acceptable or tolerable as it was and the sooner
- AT gets away from them the better for their long term success. IMO.
-
- Regards,
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- BM
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