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- From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: The Amiga 1200 Specs - From CBM
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.112628.10334@enea.se>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 11:26:28 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.171536.1304@ra.msstate.edu>
- Organization: Enea Data AB
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- skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
- : In article <1992Nov4.130420.29456@nntp.hut.fi> hurlum@niksula.hut.fi (Harri Juhani Holopainen) writes:
- : >In article <8638@orbit.cts.com> chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
- : >>jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
- : >>>In article <1c9ig9INNb8c@hpsdlss3.sdd.hp.com>, Brian Gragg writes:
- : >>>
- : >>>> Well, my 2 and 3 year old daughters use my amiga and I know the hard disk
- : >>>> would not stand the abuse the keyboard would get. (The keyboard doesn't
- : >>>> sit still often) ...(my turn..no my turn..no my turn)...
- : >>
- : >>Actually, from a recent Seagate ad (or was it an article on their new line of
- : >>drives?) it states that commodore is using Seagates new line of high impact
- : >
- : >The name 'Seagate' associated with hard drives gives me itchy warts. Of course
- : >my experiments with two 20 & 40M SCSI drives is not anything you'd call a
- : >representative sample, so it's merely an emotional thing. FFS floppies are
- : >almost faster than the 20M, there are known to be chain saws that are more
- : >quiet and an old 42M Quantum ProDrive is twice as fast as the 40M Seagate.
- : >The retail price for the 40M Seagate was 2 yrs ago 3600 FIM (~900 or so $
- : >back then) in the local Mac (official) dealer.
- :
- : Well, things seem to have changed a bit. I've been using a couple of 245M
- : Seagates on my 486 at work and have been delighted with them. They are as
- : fast or faster than the Quantum 52M that used to be in my A3000 and the
- : Maxtor 210M which is in it currently. As I've never had trouble with any
- : of the drives, all seem to be equally reliable. The Seagates were actually
- : less expensive than the Maxtor, but they are also IDE instead of SCSI. I'll
- : probably be purchasing one of these beasts to supplement the tiny 120M drive
- : in the stock A4000. :-)
-
- Well, Seagate has bought Imprimis (a couple of years ago, former a
- division of Control Data) and has not had the time to destroy the good
- work done by Imprimis.
-
- Seagate drives has to withstand 150G due to the traditional "throw-the-
- shit-out-the-window" reaction many users get (apart from itchy warts:-).
-
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- Tommy Petersson tope@enea.se Enea Data AB, Sweden
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