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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DD/HD Disks
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Date: 12 Mar 90 22:47:30 GMT
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In <1990Mar13.172612.24933@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>	Can someone PLEASE explain to me why there are no high-density
>3.5" disk drives available for the Amiga when they are all over the
>IBM world and are penetrating the Mac world? It seems incredible to me
>that no one has made such a device. Is there a simple reason?
>	-- Ethan

Cost and potential market, mostly. You cannot just hang a high density floppy
drive out there on the existing floppy interface, because the signals are all
wrng, and can't easily be made right. This means that you have to have a
controller for it, which in turn, means that you have to have driver software
for it. Lots of work, and how many folks would buy such a beast at a price
commensurate with making a profit for the designer/builder?

-larry

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