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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 06:18:07 GMT
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- Hans Guijt (hguijt@inter.NL.net) wrote:
- : >The amiga was not the first to use the 3.5" disks, the Mac had been using
- : >them for over a year when the amiga came out.
-
- : The MSX had them even longer.
-
- I'm not claiming that the Amiga was the first. I used a Mac with a 3.5"
- drive in 1984 before the Amiga even came out. What I am saying is that at
- LEAST 90% of the computers in use had 5.25" or 8" disks. The MAJORITY had
- them. Many 'authorities' were saying that Apple and Commodore "lacked
- sense" for not basing the systems on 5.25" drives.
-
- Power Computing has already included them in systems, the Amiga would be
- following, but not on the coattails of the ENTIRE industry.
-
- : BTW. Somebody else spoke of giving consumers a choice of Zip or Jazz. That's
- : great, but on what would software ship? Don't tell me you think 'both' is an
- : acceptable answer...
-
- I think of Zip as a replacement for the floppy. The Jaz (one 'z') drive
- would be a nice 'extra' but I certainly don't consider it to be a viable
- alternative to a standard replacement of the floppy drive.
-
- Shed the floppy drive while the Amiga market is small. Imagine our 'base'
- media being 100MB in size and 70 times faster than a floppy.
-