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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Sun, 07 Jan 96 23:33:43 GMT+1
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.44qo@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 06 Jan 96 Maxwell Daymon wrote to All:
-
- MD> Just forget the HD drive. Make the Amiga come standard with a Zip
- MD> drive. Yes, it will cost a little more - but the Amiga is in the
- MD> PERFECT position to dump that garbage floppy technology and jump on a
-
- Although this might work on the high-end models, it would definitely
- not be suitable for the Amigas we can afford. Too expensive for
- a low-end model. Oh yes, it could be done, but forget about a price
- tag that looks nicer than those of PC's or low-end Macs (that's 68040
- models!).
-
- MD> Why fight to make an internet software package fit on an 880K
- MD> floppy? It will only turn out as garbage!
-
- Hm, that's what I initially thought about a Mac II emulator coming in
- about 100 Kb...
-
- MD> It'll never happen, I know. Apple will probably lead the way, followed
- MD> by the clones, followed by Amiga... Oh well. It was fun while it
- MD> lasted.
-
- Amiga *can* lead the way if you let the new engineering team run
- loose, but then hardly anyone on this echo would be able to afford one
- anymore. For high-tech in the living room, buy an SGI.
-
- It was not the expensive, high-end A1000 that made the Amiga popular,
- gained Commodore millions of customers and actually made some money.
-
- It was the A500 - the low-end model.
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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