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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
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- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 15:42:37 GMT
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- Maxwell Daymon (mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com) wrote:
-
- : I consider at least a small hard drive as needed these days (didn't I say
- : this). As such, the Zip would replace BOTH the floppy and built in 40 or
- : 80MB hard drive they'd probably put in. In this case, it would cost MUCH
- : less than putting in BOTH a floppy and hard drive. I don't see the floppy
- : only Amiga winning out to the current game systems - people who would have
- : considered that Amiga are probably going with the Saturn, Playstation, or
- : U64. As such, The Zip would appeal to low end users interested in
- : *computing* tasks too (a little letter writing, painting, etc.)
-
- The problem is that shipping software on Zip would be much more expensive
- than CD-ROM or floppy. Even if it's a DD floppy, having some way to
- inexpensively store, share, and ship data is necessary.
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