Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!p4.cs.man.ac.uk!yorkr From: yorkr@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Richard York) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: high density discs. Summary: Will the arc be ever upgraded to HD discs? Keywords: discs Message-ID: Date: 3 Jun 91 10:01:32 GMT Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk Lines: 19 With the size of Arc hard discs constantly growing (100 meg is not uncommon) it seems more sensible to start providing high density floppy drives. These are now virtually a standard on PC's, providing 1.4Meg per disc. Also the price of the discs themselves has dropped to less than a pound each so its not a problem any more. Backing up 100 meg onto 800K discs is no joke. If anyone at acorn is listening could we have a comment. This doesn't seem to much of an unreasonable request and surely the drives themselves are now not that expensive, due again to the heavy use in the PC world. The arc over the last few years has become much more memory hungry due to much bigger and better software. Bigger floppies now seem a good way to go. Does anyone else out there in Acorn land think the same? Richard York. -- :----------------------------------------------------------------------: : Richard York : E-mail : yorkr@p4.cs.man.ac.uk : : 1st year Computer Engineering : Janet : yorkr@uk.ac.man.cs.p4 : : Manchester University : :