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From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 1.52MB drive
Message-ID: <3165@enea.se>
Date: 11 Apr 91 08:19:05 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.154645.10484@mack.uit.no-
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In article <1991Apr10.154645.10484@mack.uit.no- terjepe@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Pedersen) writes:
-Doesn't anyone know anything about the new 1.52 MB disc drive to Amiga ?
-I thought that such a drive would be the first thing any Amiga owner would want to
-buy, even before a hard disc. Even with a hard disc you are bound to have a bunch of disks. (unless you have a 1.2 GB drive...and who does.?)
-
-TP

Since the 1.2GB drives only are 1GB formatted, even people with those
have to keep some discs, too. And it takes about 600 discs for a full backup...

Commodore's disc drive works by halving the speed and doubling the data
storage, so it's more than 1.52MB on the discs. I don't know if they need
a new Paula, but it will be possible to upgrade old (how old?) machines.

The first drives will inevitabely go into the new 3000T's and 3000's, and
upgrades will be available later.

The "dont-hold-me-to-it" guesstimated release date for 3000T (by Commodore)
is this summer.

TP (yes, me too)
tope@enea.se