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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000
Message-ID: <11291@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 3 May 90 18:00:58 GMT
References: <79733@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <8863@hubcap.clemson.edu> <11126@cbmvax.commodore.com> <153@next.com> <3625@newton.physics.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <3625@newton.physics.purdue.edu> murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy) writes:
>In article <153@next.com> Ali_Ozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer) writes:

>>If Commodore were to provide the 3000 without a harddisk, too many people
>>would end up making the mistake of buying the machine without it, ..

>Ali, Does this imply that NeXT blundered when selling their diskless NeXT?
>I seem to recall a fair number of postings in comp.sys.next asking how
>to enter the correct identifiers for such and such a drive.  8^) 8^)

If you're after a network computer, it might make some sense to sell a 
system with no disk, if it can easily boot from a network.  I don't see
any sense in an A3000 without hard disk or network; sure, you can work
from floppies, I did that back in '85 on my A1000.  I used to work off
of tape in '79 with my Exidy Sorcerer, but I don't see any point in
bringing the A3000 down to that level, either.

>Bill Murphy                                  | Zaphod, Vell he's just zis


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