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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 1.52MB drive
Message-ID: <1167@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 91 08:11:51 GMT
References: <177031@netw23.uucp> <6msga2-@rpi.edu> <1991Apr24.012904.7282@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <srtggdh@rpi.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <srtggdh@rpi.edu> metahawk@itsgw.rpi.edu (Wayne G Rigby) writes:
>
>Commodore's just coming out with their 1.44 meg equiv. (1.72MB), so they're
>just a little behind, but they've never been miracle makers with floppy drives.

Huh, sorry to disagree. I still use the 8250 (not the CIA, the floppy drive)
of my CBM 8296-D, which stores 1 MB on a DD diskette much more reliably
than current HD PC drives. I call this a miracle and am still wondering
why this superior technology couldn't make it up today.

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