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From: rb@ccivax.UUCP (rex ballard)
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Subject: Re: Expand at your own risk!
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Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 21:53:48 EST
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In article <1361@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> dillon%cory@BERKELEY.EDU@caip.RUTGERS.EDU writes:
>From: dillon%cory@BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
>	Ram certainly will never replace the hard-disk.
>	HOWEVER.  I agree with your premise.  That is, I don't think now is

>the right time for us poor developers/users to begin buying hardware.  With
>so few companies in the Amiga market, prices will be rather extreme.  I
>myself would very much like an HD for my Amiga, but do not want to shell
>out $2000+ to get one.
>				-Matt

The critical question is will Amiga adopt a standard like SCSI with CCS,
which allows you to buy almost ANY drive (many at OEM prices), or will
Amiga go proprietary and wait for drive manufacturers and OEMs to produce
for their particular machine.

Perhaps one or more third parties will come up with a good cheap SCSI
interface, a boot/driver ROM, and let Commodore "Stick to Knitting",
making the Amiga and other great computers, which is what they do
best.