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- From: Wooly Mittens <0201367@ptfe12.hro.nl>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Can I use a PC hard disk on my amiga.
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 14:25:24 -0700
- Organization: TU/Delft
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- Nicholas Stallard wrote:
-
- > can it ? hum.. somehow my AT HD does work with an AT controller (at !=
- > Amiga Technologies)
-
- SCSI would be a faster, (cheaper), smarter and more versitile than an ide
- controller to buy.
-
- > WM> The memory (IF 72 pin sims) can be plugged in almost
- > WM> any amiga memory upgrader (that takes sims).
- >
- > I would guess any 72 pin sim can be plugged int a memory card that _supports_
- > 72 pin sims .. strange eh :))
-
- Not always, a friend tried to enlarge the samplebank of his AWE32 by adding one
- of his old amiga's simms (the b'stard ;) ) it failed to recognise the extra mem
- (serves him right for raping his old friend)...(his amiga that is).
-
- >
- > networking an a500 with KS1.3 and no hd nor enough ram is completly silly ..
- >
-
- twin is not a network it's a file copier that can use a serial link between
- amiga's and peecees, using twin to backup your data on a pc is not silly
- it's just slow.
-
-
- > best advice: either get the controller that supports the HD and get a Memory
- > card for the a500 that supports them 72 pin sims or stick with a _working_
- > peecee ..
- >
- > cya
- > Nicholas
- >
- > --
- > __
- > __/// Member of | Snowy@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de | Yagger @#amigacafe
- > \XX/ Team AMIGA | http://home.pages.de/~Snowy | undernet :-)
- >
- > <tsb>Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
-