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- From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: PCMCIA products?
- Message-ID: <36807@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 22:35:45 GMT
- References: <brianc.720743971@pv660a.vincent.iastate.edu> <1992Nov3.073754.16240@ulrik.uio.no> <1992Nov6.194419.1730@cranel.com> <36789@cbmvax.commodore.com> <brianc.721251303@pv660a.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <brianc.721251303@pv660a.vincent.iastate.edu> brianc@iastate.edu (Brian J Cerveny) writes:
- > In <36789@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
- >
- > >In the case of the internal IDE drive, readily available 2.5" drives (in OEM
- > >terms at least) span the range of 20-80 M-bytes, with 120 M-byte on the
- > >horizon and 250+ M-byte being demonstrated at shows, it would seem that there
- > >is plenty of room for growth.
- >
- > Maxtor is currently shipping a 120MB 2.5" drive. I know of at least two
- > large hard drive dealers in Computer Shopper that have them in stock, for
- > around $460. (Not exactly the same deal as 213MB 3.5" for $450, is it? :)
-
- No, but such differences tend to even out over time. The 120 M-byte 2.5" Maxtor
- drive is state of the art from a "high-end" vendor, the 213 M-byte 3.5" drive is
- this years antique technology.
-
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