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  3. From: bobl@bobsbox.rent.com (Bob Lindabury - SysAdmin)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  5. Subject: Re: PCMCIA products?
  6. Message-ID: <bobl.9644@bobsbox.rent.com>
  7. Date: 8 Nov 92 05:13:08 GMT
  8. References: <brianc.720743971@pv660a.vincent.iastate.edu> <1992Nov3.073754.16240@ulrik.uio.no> <1992Nov6.194419.1730@cranel.com> <36789@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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  11. X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
  12.  
  13. In article <36789@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
  14. >
  15. > If we had put a 3.5" drive in the case, it would have ended up at least as
  16. > large in all dimensions as the A500 case, which isn't desirable in an n-th
  17. > generation "console" system.  Also there are power and cooling requirements
  18. > for 3.5" drives that would cause problems.
  19. > --
  20. > George Robbins - now working for,     work:   to be avoided at all costs...
  21. > but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
  22. > Commodore, Engineering Department     domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
  23.  
  24. What's wrong with doing like some 3rd party vendors are doing and
  25. replacing the 3.5" floppy with a hard drive and mapping the external
  26. drive port to DF0:?  That seems like a pretty simple way to make room
  27. for a hard drive system.
  28.  
  29. --
  30.  Bob Lindabury
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