Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!caen!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Hi Capacity Floppies & Ami [Was Re: Give the Amiga Some Cred Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 91 17:06:43 GMT References: <6369@mindlink.bc.ca> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 18 Harvey_Taylor@mindlink.bc.ca (Harvey Taylor) writes: > PS. > I wonder why nobody has stuck a generic floppy controller chip on a board > and written a driver... Seems like a natural. > How about, Why didn't AE do this? Their use of a 1/2 speed drive, and sales of these drives validated their use in the minds of others that might have been looking at a more costly in the short term solution...I wasn't on the net when AE's drives came out...Did anyone attack them then? Why attack Commodore now that they are following the lead of others in their market? -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) If Americans only cared about their Government as much as their SPORTS!!