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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 9 Jan 1996 12:16:50 GMT
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- Ross Deeley (rossdee@inhb.co.nz) wrote:
-
- : ZIP's are an inexpensive way to store data, as long as its in lots of
- : 100Megs. (If ZIP's weren't economical, they wouldnt be selling like hot
- : cakes. {has any one ever done a survey on how well 'hot cakes' actually
- : sell?}
-
- : If there were programs around that used the 100 megs then distribution
- : via ZIP would be a good alternative. However most amiga programs are, at
- : this stage too small for this, since they are generaly designed for
- : floppy drive systems with small hard drives.
-
- : If a ZIP drive was the standard, then companies like Digita and Softwood
- : could publish a suite of programs (wp, spreadsheet, database etc) on one
- : ZIP, and include plenty of clip art etc.
-
- Your forgetting one thing. The price of Zip media would cause a $15 or
- more hike in the price of Amiga software. Zips are cheap for user storage
- but for a developer who is looking at shipping thousands of packages, the
- costs would add up quickly. It's better for them to ship on CD because
- it's less than a $1 for each copy of a CD done in bulk. 100MB Zips in bulk
- in would still cost them over $10, 25MB ones would probably be just over $5.
- That's why I think that Amigas should be shipped with hard drives and
- CDROM drives, then the user could buy any backup device they want.
-
-
- : Of course this is a chicken and egg situation.
-
- The egg came first because it was around before the bird evolved into a
- chicken. :)
-
-
- Chris Hall
-