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- From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.032458.2560@usl.edu>
- Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
- References: <jbickers.0lzw@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec24.014141.22436@usl.edu> <jbickers.0m29@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 03:24:58 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <jbickers.0m29@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
- >Quoted from <1992Dec24.014141.22436@usl.edu> by das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A):
- >
- >> new OSes or 'fixing' HD problems. Long gone are the days that PC relied
- >> on floppy drives to operate, verily: in those days of old, they too
- >> had two same-size floppy drives.
- >
- > We have some XTs around the office, connected to a network. They
- > only have one 5.25" drive each.
-
- XTs have/had hard drives.
-
- My point, which you took about a millisecond to analyze, is that when
- a computer, AMiga -or- PC relies on floppies, usually uses two same-
- size floppy drives.
-
- > The machines that we do have with dual drives have one 3.5" and
- > one 5.25", and not because it's convenient but because it's
- > _required_ to convert from one disk format to another. Which is a
- > pain, but that's PCs for you. It is also complicated by the fact
- > that both size drives have different size formats, 360KB vs 720KB
- > vs 1.4MB vs 2.xMB, so one can't just use old drives.
-
- Well, if Babbage's does not have 3.5" disk software, it is convenient to
- get 5.25" disk software. Name convenience what you will.
-
- Also, it has been a long while since PCs sold with low density floppy
- drives. ANd by themselves they are very cheap.
-
- My next PC will have 2.88meg floppies, for sure.
-
- >*** John Bickers, TAP. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
- --
- Dan Stephenson das9674@usl.edu
- "Yes Dan, I have heard of Ultima Underworld. From my point of view it
- appears to be a rather large stick which you seem to be using to beat
- everbody in this group with." -Mark Steyn, comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
-