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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Give The Amiga Some Credit Already!
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 04:30:57 GMT

In article <1991Jun18.121129.28202@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>
>   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.
>
	I guess I'm missing something. Why is that any different
from the way normal low-density 3.5" drives have been working on
the Amiga for the past 6 years? I can't go get a low-density IBM
3.5" drive and put it on my Amiga.
	I would HOPE that the Commodore drive and the AE drive
can read each other's disks. If they can't then there is a
problem that I admit to. Otherwise, it is a standard that any
hardware company can use.
	-- 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."