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From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Expanding Megafile 60 (summary)
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Date: 15 Dec 90 00:35:30 GMT
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swklassen@rose.uwaterloo.ca (Steven W. Klassen) writes:

- My question for Atari is:  Why has this approach been taken?

It's inexpensive.

- I would think that the ability to just "plug in" a second drive
- would be a useful marketing tool.
 
You forget that this is Atari you're talking about.  They don't 
market hard drives, or STs for that matter.  (Actually, a friend of 
mine, the one that tells me about the $400 386 systems, saw an Atari 
ST co-op ad one morning during the Today show.  Had the dealer's 
address and phone number at the end.)

- My reaction is:  Too much work/risk for me to undertake.  I guess I
- could purchase a second Megafile but perhaps I should just save my
- money to buy a better machine.
 
Or a better hard drive.  I would think that people who read this net 
would know better.

I recommended an ICD drive to a friend of mine who knows nothing about
hard drives, and he went out and bought a Megafile 30 for $500.  He
could have had a larger drive and better host adapter and software for
that price if he would have heeded my recommendation.  It boggles my
mind when I recommend things to people after they ask me, and they go
ahead and do the opposite.

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