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- From: John McCrea <john@jmccrea.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: *** Escom UK: A historic moment ***
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- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 96 00:40:10 GMT
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- Andrew George Elia (odin@dcs.qmw.ac.uk) wrote:
- > Sorry if this post is a bit long, but bear with me!
- > [snip]
-
- re New ESCOM 1200s and a disk demo...
-
- > One quick point though: I'm not sure whether it's Kickstart 3.1,
- > or the dodgy non-DiskReady disc drives, or a subtle combination of the
- > two, but rebooting the machine takes an absolute age! It's particularly
- > shocking in that my A500+ (still 68000-based) can bring up a pre-boot
- > screen in a fraction of the time. I just hope that the A4000s don't turn
- > out that way!
- >
- > [snip]
-
- Could this be an attempt to allow slow IDE hard-drives sufficient time to
- spool up....just a guess
-
- John
-
- PS As I said in another post, Virtual Reality are selling (-off?) the
- Magic Pack for UKP299...think you can compete?
-
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