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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Downgrade the Amiga High Density standard
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 23:35:55 GMT
- Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
- Message-ID: <4g34cr$58m@natasha.rmii.com>
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- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- : 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.
-
- The only "add on" you need is a faster disk controller (Paula)
-
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