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- From: Paul Chan <paul>
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- Subject: Re: Walker = 1970's 8-Track Player
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 08:48:09 GMT
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- jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph") wrote:
- >> maker to build the custom floppy drives. The new Project Walker
- >> machine fixes
- >> that problem with an off-the-shelf PC floppy controller chip, so we get
- >> HD
- >> floppies back, at full speed.
- >> How about giving them a little credit for that?
- >
- >Does anyone know if the new 1.44Mb disk drive in the 'dung beetle' will
- >actually read all 880Kb Amiga disks? After the fiasco with the
- >A1200/A4000 disk drives not being compatible, I'd be very suprised if
- >this new drive will read any non-standard format disks (like all the old
- >games).
-
- Isn`t that what they`re doing the Heath Robinson operation on the Floppy
- controller & Paula combination for (the electronic switching)?
-
- It`s silly, but probably cheap. I`m waiting for the to do electronic eject like
- the Mac! ;)
-
- The external case of the walker is a travesty though. I`ll take bland beige and
- boxy over this design. It`s not Bohemian, it`s just Bad. They could have taken
- a leaf out of the SGI book and cashed in the the awesome looks of some of those
- machines (especially the Onyx and Indigo) or they could have gone for the more
- retarined SunWorkstation look. Instead, we Amigans have started to slag off the
- design by calling it "vacuum cleaner" and "dung beetle" before the Mac and PC
- users even get a look in. Come on AT, get real, what happened to that picture
- of the mini-tower Amiga way back at the start?
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