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- From: Paul Copsey <paul@hectortd.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT Walker Project
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 96 23:55:54 GMT
- Organization: Hector's House
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- Mat Bettinson (mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- > Salutations Massimo for on the 19 Mar 96, verilly did you scribe;
- >
- > MM> What about _cheap_ but extremely fast and easy to use digitizers,
- > MM> network cards, high-speed serial cards, modems, programming devices
- > MM> etc.etc. ???
- >
- > When were any of these devices cheap, reliable or available especially in
- > the case of high-speed serial cards, modems and programming devices for the
- > Amiga.
-
- Excluding the Amiga bit, PCMCIA modems, serial cards etc were very
- cheap last time I looked, and a bit of a driver wouldn't really have
- added that much to the overall cost.
-
- > MM> My opinion is clear: PCMCIA is great if it would be supported somehow
- > MM> better, and if people could get info material about how to built
- > MM> compatible hardware on their own (if interested).
- >
- > Don't you think the life of the A600 and A1200 was ENOUGH of a trial for
- > PCMCIA? Years and years and still it was never fully supported. Not even a
- > MODEM driver exists.
-
- But there are people happily using hd's (overdrive style), Squirrels,
- there must be a few using PCMCIA memory, and I know that I quite like
- my PCMCIA digitiser. If the Amiga market hadn't been so dead, drivers
- would have come.
-
- Paul
-
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- "On my world, there are books, thousands of pages, about the power of one
- mind to change the Universe. But none say it as clearly as this."
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