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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga marketing: Where, how, and why
Message-ID: <2031@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 02:13:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2031
Posted: Tue Jun 23 02:13:49 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 24-Jun-87 06:59:06 EDT
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in article <977@killer.UUCP>, elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) says:
> Keywords: markets, media, changing Amiga image
> 
> the software is available, and there IS [are] hard drives
> available, but not the big ones that small business needs, probably because
> there's been no demand due the fact that no small businesses have bought
> Amigas because they don't know about it!

Let's see about that....Hmmm, the latest Byte by Byte hard disk ad has
hard disk sizes ranging from 20 Megabytes to 80 Megabytes.  Of course, they
use the IBM style ST-506 interface, so they're stuck with whatever most
IBM drive makers size their drives to.  Let's look at C-Ltd.  They use 
SCSI, and their latest ad lists prices for drives from 22 Megabytes to
150 Megabytes, though they also mention that sizes up to 750 Megabytes are
available upon request.  Do small businesses with IBM PC's typically use
drives larger than this?  That's a pretty expensive drive you're talking
about, and at least until the most recent releases of MS-DOS, you'd have
needed around 20 or so partitions on that big hard drive with a PC.

> Eric Green   elg%usl.CSNET     CS student, University of SW Louisiana
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