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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 06:26:01 GMT
- Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
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- Jan Willets (tim@willets.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA wrote:
- : Surely though the point of the ZIP is that as you need more storage space
- : you buy more cartridges - a much cheaper option than buying any size of
- : hd. The spectre then arises of replacing the floppy swopping on floppy-
- : only machines with ZIP swopping every time the OS wants Workbench....
-
- Assign C: ZIP:C PATH
-
- You could install a complete OS 3.1 distribution on every Zip disk and
- hardly notice. You could also store theme disks, and there's always a
- hard drive option later.
-
- : style is used), and a hd floppy drive. Then provide drive bays as per
- : clones. CD/ZIP could then be supplied as standard by AT or dealers or
- : fitted by the end-user as required. If an all-in-one case is still
-
- Perhaps, but it would never catch on like an LCD device would. HD drives
- are slow and cumbersome. I just see the industry moving away from
- floppies (one way or another) and to something like this. I see the same
- problem in the future we're having now with high density drives. Hacks
- and half-solutions to try and keep up with where everyone else will
- already be.
-