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- Path: gate.net!nostromo!damocles
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A1200+
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Nostromo
- From: damocles@nostromo.gate.net (Randy Vice)
- Message-ID: <damocles.2xs4@nostromo.gate.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 96 14:14:46 EST
-
- On Wed 10-Jan-1996 2:34p, nyle landas wrote:
-
- nl> : : >I would perper if AT left out the Floppy. I have an A1200 and using
- nl> : : >floppy games are a PAIN IN THE BUT. insert disk 4/6 then move two
- nl> : : >spaces then insert disk 2/6 etc... (Very few Amiga games install on
- nl> : : >Hard disks).
-
- nl> : : >I would much perfer a CD drive and have WB come on bootable CD...
-
- nl> : : I seriously hope you mean have WB come on *installable* CD. If you
- nl> have to
- nl> : : boot from the WB CD you then get into CD swapping. This is no better
- nl> then
- nl> : : floppy swapping.
-
- nl> : Since when did you ever do CD swaping? The entire Amiga archives and WB
- nl> and Dos
- nl> : will fit easily on a CD. Bootable CD's already exsist. I like the
- nl> idea.
-
- nl> What do I do if I want to archive filesfrom the hard drive? Or give a
- nl> picture to a friend? etc. etc. etc. A computer without a floppy is ot too
- nl> useful as a computer. Only as a game machine like the CD32 with a
- nl> keyboard.
- nl> Both a floppy and CDROM drive should be standard.
-
- Why bother with the floppy? We're talking cheap low end system that provides
- the buyiers with the biggest bang for the buck. Floppy drives do not fall
- into that catagory, CD-ROMS do. You can still go and buy a fairly cheap
- external floppy drive if your really in that need for it.
-
- Another way to look at this in the same light, I would say why would anyone in
- the world have a computer without a modem? It certainly has expanded the
- usfullness of my system a hundred fold IMHO. How about a monitor? Can you
- see where I'm going with this? Certain things different folks consider very
- important for *their* system that others might not consider to be that
- important in buying a system.
-
- : damocles@nostromo.gate.net : Bruce Morrow,a man before and after his time:
- :"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the :
- :United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." :
- : - Samual Adams : Morrow Project Recon: The Expendible Ones :
-