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From: Harvey_Taylor@mindlink.bc.ca (Harvey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Hi Capacity Floppies & Ami [Was Re: Give the Amiga Some Cred
Message-ID: <6369@mindlink.bc.ca>
Date: 18 Jun 91 20:24:34 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In <1991Jun17.205807.13064@news.iastate.edu>, taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu
                                                        (Marc Barrett) writes:
|In <30189@know.pws.bull.com>, ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill)
|writes:
|>
|>   Over the past few months I've noticed a trend in "complaint messages" from
|>Amiga users. It seems that the usual style of these messages is to bash the
|>Amiga for lacking certain features that other computers "now have", yet this
|>logic is not always correct. Let's take a few examples here...
|>
|>High Density Disk Drives- How many complaints have you heard from Amiga users
|>about this? The drives do exist for the Amiga (AE and Commodore's new one)

    There is another option.

|   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.

    Yeah that's pretty klunky alright.

Then in <1991Jun18.121129.28202@news.iastate.edu>, taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu
(Marc Barrett) 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.

    Yeah, but there are other solutions. I have the TEAC FD-235JS SCSI Floppy
 on my system. This gives me 2.88M & 1.44 M capacities. It works with the
 CrossDOS MsdosFileSystem too. At approx US$200, this drive is a viable
 alternative.
    -het

    PS.
    I wonder why nobody has stuck a generic floppy controller chip on a board
 and written a driver... Seems like a natural.

    "I do not agree with a word you say,
     but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

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