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From: cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Sidecar
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Date: Tue, 9-Sep-86 18:53:25 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  9 18:53:25 1986
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It is not so suprising that the Sidecar looks like a PC Clone because
it is! RJ Mical, who wrote the software for it, said it was an
adaptation of the PC-10 IBM PC Clone that Commodore is very succesfully
selling in Europe. 

As for hard disks on the Amiga, the MicroBotics one is really nice.
It plugs into the parallel port (but you don't lose the parallel
port because the disk unit has one that operates just like the
Amiga's) it is a 20 Megabyte unit, and has a full SCSI bus
coming out the back of it. Unfortunately the parallel/SCSI conversion
is built into the Drive unit so you can't just order the SCSI
adapter but at $1500 it is less than say the Mac people have been
paying for 20 Meg drives. The nicest thing though are that it is
small and quiet. Not much bigger than the 3.5" external drive and
no noisy fan. Multiple drives can be daisy chained for additional
storage or you can use your own drive / adapter. It does require 
V1.2 however so don't look for shipments until 1.2 ships, maybe
we will know when that is after the Developers conference. 

Personally, I seriously doubt there will be really cheap hard disks
for the amiga until their is a really cheap SCSI board. Maybe the
guys at Allegra can pull it off.


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--Chuck McManis
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