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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 06:24:29 GMT
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- Chris Hall (chall@clover.cleaf.com) wrote:
- : Zips as a backup storage device but in the end leave it up to the user.
-
- They are great as primary devices. They are faster than many hard drives
- that came with Amigas (mine does almost 800K/sec, comparable to the LP52
- and LP120 drives that came with the A3000)
-
- : CDROMs are cheap enough to replace the floppy.
-
- CD-ROMs lack one critical feature: writability. I'm talking about
- something to replace the floppy drive as we use it - there's no reason to
- hold on to floppies (well, there's always masochism).
-
- Other machines will kill the floppy eventually. They will only be sold to
- maintain compatibility with non-networked people (the same reasons people
- buy 5.25" drives now). When Apple came out with the 3.5" drive, 3.5"
- floppies were $12 each.
-
- Per megabyte, Zip disks are cheaper than floppies. Many users will find
- that they don't NEED many Zip disks.
-
- : shouldn't use it. Floppies are mostly useless these days. Their limited
- : in size, speed and are error prone.
-
- Exactly. I hope they don't hang on to it.
-