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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 high density floppy drive with AMAX support!
Message-ID: <1006@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 91 10:08:25 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.214507.10761@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991Mar23.150300.6691@grebyn.com>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
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In article <1991Mar23.150300.6691@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>In article <1991Mar22.214507.10761@en.ecn.purdue.edu> wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (William A Warner) writes:
>>From a phone conversation with ReadySoft, I found out that not only is C=
>>supposedly going to be releasing a 3.5" High Density 1.76 Meg floppy
>>drive in the near future, but it will be replacing the stock floppy in all
>>future 3000's sold!
>>This was just told to me over the phone, therefore time will probably be 
>>the best confirmation!  Unless someone at C= would like to speak up now
>>and yell "LIAR!"
>
>I read that the Amiga 3000T (announced at CeBIT) has this drive, so I
>believe it's official.
>
>What I wanna know is: Does this mean a new Paula chip, or a SCSI
>interfaced floppy drive, like the Insite?

No, it's a special drive: in HD mode it goes half speed. So you get the
capacity but not the speed adavantage of a HD drive.

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