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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: Downgrade the Amiga High Density standard
- Date: 18 Feb 96 12:04:02 +0000
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- Hi, Maxwell Daymon , on 16-Feb-96 23:35:55 you scribbled....
- >George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- >: Sell it to the people who want it if done, otherwise use the cheaper but
- >: lower spaced standard PC drive.
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- >Once more. The only difference between a standard PC drive and an "Amiga"
- >HD drive is that the Amiga drive is half as fast in HD mode.
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- >The PC drive is NOT lower spec'd in ANY way, and is in fact faster. If
- >Paula ate 500kbps sustained, we could use standard PC HD drives at 1760k.
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- >: If there was some way to use the cheaper drives but get the same space
- >: without a too expensive add-on or none at all it would be great.
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- >The only "add on" you need is a faster disk controller (Paula)
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- ..or a buffer? see my other post "A4000 drive I was wrong AT ...NOT"
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- >--
- >mdaymon@rmi.net
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- >"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
- >greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace.
- >We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand
- >that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our contrymen."
- > --Samuel Adams
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- Mike
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