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- From: stuart@lorelei.ece.drexel.edu (Stuart R. Harper)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.195703.3786@cbis.ece.drexel.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 19:57:03 GMT
- References: <1992Nov2.090012.44313@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <36617@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Nov3.185053.44366@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <36692@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Sender: news@cbis.ece.drexel.edu
- Reply-To: Mike_Noreen@anet.bbs.bad.se (Mike Noreen)
- Organization: Drexel U. - CCD - E4
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- In article <36692@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George
- Robbins) writes:
- >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> >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?
- >
-
- While it might not be a buy/no-buy point, it does affect the impression of
- the machine and it's compatibility with other machines that use HD floppies as
- standard. Case in point, when I take work home for my office Mac, I have to
- pull out DD disks, instead of the HD floppies I that I use to exchange data
- with the other MAC users.
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-