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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore Research and Development.
Message-ID: <10089.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 9 Jan 91 03:28:44 GMT
References: <1991Jan3.003449.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> <9793.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1991Jan7.094914.8441@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
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Quoted from <1991Jan7.094914.8441@marlin.jcu.edu.au> by glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd):
> In article <9793.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
> >Quoted from <1991Jan3.003449.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> by taab5@ccvax.iastate.edu:

> >>    CASE 5: HIGH-DENSITY FLOPPY DRIVES:
> >
> >    Why?
> 
> Because people in business use Macs with 1.44 MEG disks, and think
> the Amiga is pretty poor because it can't use them! I speak

    It occurs to me that people in business can be told that a Syquest
    is like a floppy drive, and that's 44M. Where I work, this would be
    the point that I'd make - if you have a need for large capacity
    removable media, things like the Syquest (and for that matter
    optical disks) are available.

    On the other hand, this would go down ok because we have a lot of
    PCs with 720K drives. Someplace with only 1.4M drives may think
    differently.

    IMHO, in this age of lharcs and pkzips 1.4M is not that big a jump
    from .8M. It can be significant, but it's not as important as the
    jump from 170K or 360K to 720K or 880K. These things sort of taper
    off.

> Colin.
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