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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 06:31:55 GMT
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- gcondon (gcondon@bix.com) wrote:
- : All the ideas you mention are great but I don't think practical
- : for an incremental revision to the 1200, be it 1200+ or 1300 or
- : whatever.
-
- : My best suggestion would be to get an HD 3.5 drive on them if
- : possible and have cheap add-on deals for a PCMCIA SCSI interface
- : that can drive a CD-ROM and/or ZIP drive.
-
- That's the whole problem. An HD drive requires a flakey hacked unit or an
- entire custom chip change which will likely affect the entire DMA
- architecture. Using a Zip drive would only require the addition of a
- standard SCSI chip (ala the A3000).
-
- The 880K (or SLOW 1760K) would be a joke in this industry. If Amiga
- started becoming popular again, it'd be a major achilles heel in
- advertising. If the Amiga came with a Zip drive and built in SCSI-2
- (cheap if integrated at the factory), it'd be a major advantage.
-
- : The follow-on PPC generation is where AT should be concentrating
- : their R&D resources for major motherboard changes, not the current
- : 1200 series. Of course, you can agree to disagree <grin>.
-
- Fine, but I think a solution to the HD problem is clear. It'd also make
- adding a CD-ROM drive easier and cheaper than buying both a drive AND
- custom interface. It'd also get rid of the crap standard IDE.
-
- : I bet AT could get their costs for a SCSI PCMCIA controller down
- : to way under $40 per unit in quantity. Heck, the Squirrel is
-
- Even cheaper to integrate at the motherboard level, and the Amiga would
- still be tied to a technology that should be dead.
-
- : going for $99 retail in Amazing. Why bother with motherboard
- : changes?
-
- Because it needs to be fixed, and this is cheap and solves many problems
- that the Amiga is facing.
-