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From: rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Hard drives and things (Was Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500))
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Date: 15 Mar 91 14:26:06 GMT
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  The Classic has built in SCSI, but no HD on the cheapest model, therefore
the SCSI controller is just setting there doing nothing. Second, it's a 
slow controller. On the Amiga there are hundreds of controllers out there
now, and because of heavy competition they have gotten faster and cheap.
Atleast on the Amiga I can shop around for the best HD controller.

I just read in the Mac conference that Apple recommends discarding
the 9" B&W monitor for a bigger one, because System 7.0 doesn't look
too good on a small monitor, and screen space is valuable. They also
recommend getting a Mac LC if you want to run 7.0 because it's slow and
takes up a lot of memory on a Classic.

So that 9" super small B&W monitor isn't as valuable as you once thought.


 As for HD prices, the HD price I quoted was an external drive in the case
with a powersupply. The Amiga can use the same HD's the Mac can (surprise!)
so it's not really important to say how much club mac sells them.