home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: clover.cleaf.com!not-for-mail
- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 05:01:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <4d25iu$m1p@alterdial.UU.NET>
- References: <4ckgd8$6tg@natasha.rmii.com> <96006.201420LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <9601071933.AA0002e@willets.demon.co.uk> <4cqddp$o87@natasha.rmii.com> <4cqmo9$cot@news2.delphi.com> <4csqps$aim@alterdial.UU.NET> <4ctffo$oo0@news2.delphi.com> <4cvgu5$1i4@alterdial.UU.NET> <4cvoh4$bok@natasha.rmii.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: clover.cleaf.com
- X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 941109BETA PL0]
-
- Maxwell Daymon (mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com) wrote:
-
- : The 25MB disk is close enough that it wouldn't make a difference.
-
- These could be used if Iomega were to get them out in quanity. They need
- to license the manufacturing of Zip disks to other companies so they will
- be more available and the price will drop.
-
-
- : It's not just a backup device.
-
- Think about it. Can you see AT making the Zip drive standard on the
- Amiga? We have problems getting them to listen to us on the SCSI port.
-
- If you had to choose between an Amiga with a hard drive and floppy drive
- or an Amiga with a hard drive and CDROM, knowing that you can buy any
- optional backup device you wanted, which would you choose.
-
-
- : That will effectively force all the little guys out. Have you priced out
- : the inital cost of CD-ROM production? Companies are starting to jack up
- : costs because they can't reuse CD-ROMs and they want to cover themselves
- : if they don't sell as many as they run.
-
- CDROM production isn't that bad. I'm trying to get into it and the prices
- of write drives and CDR disks are dropping fast. I bought a CDR drive
- last spring and now they run about $600 less than what I bought mine for.
- Pressing costs aren't that bad either. The larger the run, the cheaper it
- gets. Sure you can't reuse the disks but they won't go bad on you either
- so you don't have to worry about having to send out replacement disks.
-
- If you were running a company, would you rather do thousands of swaps in
- your Zip drive making copies or burn one pre-master CD or write the ISO
- image to a tape drive then send it off to be duplicated? As far as I
- know there isn't a mass duplication service for Zips.
-
-
- : Then they couldn't enforce a licensing fee (which is the point).
-
- Well, Commodore was the ones that setup that crap boot system for the
- CD32. I hope AT is open minded enough to realize that they would have
- more third party software developers without a licensing fee thus selling
- more of there hardware.
-
-
- : And AT (and thrid parties) could advertise options on the Amiga as being
- : cheaper - no interface required. Right now A1200 drives are expensive in
- : part because they DO require PCMCIA cards (or hacks)
-
- If we keep saying SCSI should be on all Amigas that AT sales, maybe they
- will eventually listen to us.
-
-
- Chris Hall
-
-