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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 14:51:44 GMT
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- Ross Deeley (rossdee@inhb.co.nz) wrote:
-
- : For distribution of commercial software yes, but thats not all floppies
- : are useful for. There has to be a way of transfering data between
- : machines, eg documents pictures etc. (A common situation at the low end
- : is that not everybody has a printer (or only has a crap dot matrix) and
- : if they want a file printed they take it round to their mates place or
- : into the computer shop.) Our user groups newletter is on a disk these
- : days. Theres also PD software. (Yep I know Urban, Fred et al do a great
- : job, but the CD's are months apart, and some freely distributable
- : software is updated weekly. (Hmm must be due for another version of MCX)
-
- I'm not saying that users shouldn't have a backup device, it should just be
- optional when they buy the computer. Most people would get one, either a HD
- floppy for $120, Zip for $200 or something else. User groups could set
- the standard on those backup devices. If their in a user group, then they
- will most likely buy the same backup device that everyone else has.
-
- Your also forgetting one method to transfer data, telecomunication. I
- assume your user group has a BBS, how about moving software/newsletter
- distribution to the BBS. 14.4 modems are real cheap these days.
-
-
- : WHo cares. the sooner they kill off NDOS games that can't be installed to
- : hard drive the better. A SCSI floppy would be one way around the problem
- : of high density drives, and lets face it, we need a way to transfer data
- : to and from other platforms.
-
- Telecom for small (less than 10MB) data and optional large backup devices
- (Zip) for larger data.
-
-
- : As I say you need some way of transfering data, and floppies are one way
- : of doing it. If ZIP's were standard they wouldnr be needed though.
-
- Most of the files I transfer wouldn't fit on a floppy, also the error
- rate is so high on floppies, I never know if your data is going to
- be intact when I get it to the other machine. So, I and many of my
- friends have Zip drives.
-
- A few weeks ago, a friend came to town and he wanted some files from my
- CDs. The only backup device he has is a floppy drive. I copied about 15MB
- worth of data to his disks, when he got back home the next day over half
- of the disks were errored out. So much for transfering files via floppy.
-
-
- Chris Hall
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