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From: a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Why no floppy card?
Message-ID: <4458@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 91 00:59:52 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In <1991Jan14.181643.5@motaus.sps.mot.com>, skipper@motaus.sps.mot.com
                                                (Skipper Smith) writes:
:In <4439@mindlink.UUCP> a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor) writes:
:>In <1991Jan3.003449.1@ccvax.iastate.edu>, taab5@ccvax.iastate.edu
:>           <in another group>             Marc Barrett writes:
:>|
:>|   CASE 5: HIGH-DENSITY FLOPPY DRIVES:
:>
:>    I am a little surprised that no third party manufacturer has thrown
:> together a floppy controller card that would support regular IBMish
:> 2.88M, 1.44M & 720K drives. I'm sure a lot of people would much rather
:> use the 2.88M disks for backups.
:>    -harvey
:
:Why would anybody want to use a 2.88M floppy (that almost no one uses
currently)
:when they could get an Insite Peripheral's Floptical which holds 20M.

    Cost. For people with a <=100M hard drive, large floppies make sense.
  I'm sure a high capacity drive & card could be sold for ~US$200.00. Insite
  is what? >$500.00 without the controller?

:   [...]
: However, I certainly wouldn't use it for doing backups- with a 150 Mb hard
: drive and soon a 535 Mb hard drive, tape is the only way to go :-)

    Agreed. For large systems it makes sense. There are a couple of tape
 drives available now, but I imagine that when CBM ships SysVR4 (with tape
 drive), a lot more compatible systems will appear.
    -harvey

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     I'll kill you if I can, I'll help you if I must.
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