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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!penguin!gduncan
- From: gduncan@philips.oz.au (Gary Duncan)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.074238.8648@philips.oz.au>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 07:42:38 GMT
- Organization: Philips Public Telecommunications Systems, Melbourne, Australia
- Subject: Mass storage ; was (Re: Help me not to change computers!
- References: <barnabas.2mcl@terapin.com> <1992Dec14.184846.1256146@sue.cc.uregina.ca> <BzAADw.Gq@news.iastate.edu> <root.039z@rkamiga.UUCP>
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- root@rkamiga.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
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- >In article <BzAADw.Gq@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- [heapes deleted]
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- >> I really wish Commodore would get their butts in gear with Amiga CD-ROM
- >>support. I mean, how tough can it be to purchase CD-ROM drives and resell
- >>them?
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- >Because, at this time, a CD-ROM drive would mostly sit and collect dust.
- >Try as I might, I really can't get enthused over a read only storage
- >device. I would rather have a 600 meg Sony MO drive.
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- I still don't understand why a ~1000MB read/write MO device ,
- (preferably SCSI) hasn't ruled the world.
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- Forget flopticals/syquests/tapes.
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- Would seem to me to be a T-model Ford device in this Information age.
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- >--
- >Rick Kelly Rick's Amiga Framingham, Mass.
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- > think!unixland!rmkhome!rkamiga!root
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