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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Give The Amiga Some Credit Already!
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.121129.28202@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 12:11:29 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.213402.24388@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <1991Jun17.205807.13064@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>>
>>   My complaints with Commodore with respect to high-density floppy drives
>>have to do with the stupid way Commodore got the drives to work on Amigas
>>(slowing down the drive motor to allow the Paula chip to keep up?  Give
>>me a break!), and the fact that they waited four years to do it.  
>>
>	The alternative is to make everyone buy an add-on card,
>which limits A500 owners to a plug-in module on the side which of
>course makes adding an HD much harder. That (and a few other
>possibilities, all of which involved compromises) is the only way
>to get it to work via the external disk-drive port.

   A problem with Commodore's solution is the we are locked into only 
being able to use the specially modified drives produced only by Commodore.
If Commodore had, instead, developed some sort of hardware interface for
standard IBM HD drives, we could buy the interface from Commodore, and
then buy whatever HD drive we want to buy.  

   People used to routinely bash Apple for using drives that (for a long
time) only they produced, and now Commodore is doing exactly the same thing.

>	-- Ethan
>
>"...Know-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog, an animal so stupid that it
>had been sacked from one of Will's own commercials for being incapable
>of knowing which dog food it was supposed to prefer, despite the fact
>that the meat in all the other bowls had engine oil poured all over it."

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