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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
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- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 9 Jan 1996 04:26:36 GMT
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- gcondon (gcondon@bix.com) wrote:
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- : This talk about ZIP drives is great, but there is a large media cost involved.
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- : Floppies and CD-ROMs are relatively inexpensive to duplicate, but
- : I think the ZIP media is way too expensive for software distribution.
-
- : A ZIP is impractial as the only media shipped on a low-end machine.
- : I think the LCD for the low end machines is always going to be
- : a 3.5 floppy DD/HD or whatever. ZIPs and CD-ROMS have their place but
- : I think we are stuck with floppies for quite some time still...
-
- There's no reason that they couldn't loose the floppy, use a CDROM for
- distribution and use a hard drive for active storage. Backup devices
- (floppies, Zips, etc) could be purchased as a option. AT could suggest
- Zips as a backup storage device but in the end leave it up to the user.
- CDROMs are cheap enough to replace the floppy.
-
- If AT were to put a SCSI controller on all new Amigas sold, they could
- use it for the interface of the CDROM, hard drive and any other storage
- devices. As a said last summer, they should also replace the floppy
- circuitry with a SCSI to floppy adapter. This adapter could be a option
- that the user could purchase seperatly. Trackdisk.device could be
- rewritten to support this adapter. Sure it wouldn't be 100% compatible
- with the crappy copy protection. This would be another reason they
- shouldn't use it. Floppies are mostly useless these days. Their limited
- in size, speed and are error prone.
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- Chris Hall
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