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From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Amigas -- why the 90 day warranty?
Message-ID: <1666@agora.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 89 06:51:03 GMT
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From article :1989Oct24.193454.23743@ddsw1.MCS.COM:, by karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger):
: 
: I don't CARE if I see a PC with the features of an Amiga at the same price.
: That is not the point.  The Amys are neat machines, yes, but they have
: several shortcomings:
: 
: 3) Custom components where not necessary.  Specifically, floppy drives and
:    (to a lesser extent) keyboards.  The floppy drives in particular seem to
:    be custom just so they can be (720K & 1.44MB "PC" style 3.5" drives have
:    a diskchange signal, which the Amy needs, so why not use them?)

	The Amigas use a standard IBM type 720K 3.5 inch drive... They just
store more data by writing full tracks rather than sector by sector. The
hardware is the same.

: Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, :well-connected:!ddsw1!karl)
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