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- From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
- Message-ID: <36692@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 07:18:36 GMT
- References: <1992Nov2.090012.44313@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <36617@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Nov3.185053.44366@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <1992Nov3.185053.44366@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- > In article <36617@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
- > > In article <1992Nov2.090012.44313@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- > >> Before the A1200 was officially announced in Europe someone
- > >> had posted specs about the 1200 which were not official. In that
- > >> post it was said that the 1200 had an 880K floppy instead of the
- > >> new 1.76M floppy.
- > >
- > > It has an 880Kb floppy.
- > ^^^^^
- > Thats too bad, i guess i won't be getting a A1200! Why is it that Commodore
- > is the only computer manufacturer who doesn't have a HD floppy as its
- > least common denominator? (granted I don't know about Atari but then again,
- > they don't really count :)) I mean its bad enough that commodore came out
- > with the 2 speed kludge so late but now they are still not making it standard?
- > A HD floppy should be standard on all Amigas introduced since the 3000! I
- > probably wouldn't have bought the 3000 if I didn't think that Commodore would
- > have a HD floppy RSN (of course that was in Jan 1991) and look at what
- > happened. Its these little everyday things that make a BIG deal to people.
- > How much room does a super hires interlaced ham8 pic take up? Can't move
- > many of those between machines if any at all on one floppy! Oh well, just
- > my .02 worth, I just wanted you guys to know that even though you might not
- > lose a 'lot' of sales because of that, you have lost SOME, namely mine!
- > Good job on the 4000 though! :-)
- > and AmigaDOS 3.0!
-
- Arghh, I post a simple answer and get a petite diatribe in return. I'll admit
- that a HD floppy would be nice, perhaps very nice, but I'm not sure whether
- it is really essential on a machine with a built-in hard drive capability.
-
- Is this really a buy/no-buy point for you?
-
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