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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DD/HD Disks
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Date: 14 Mar 90 20:05:20 GMT
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In article <1239@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>
>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?

	But this is something that will hold us back, or at least be
perceived as holding us back. Especially since HD is so common in the
IBM world. Let's hope the A3000 comes with a HD connector, but of
course you probably already know! 8^>

>
>-larry
>
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>Entomology bugs me.
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	-- Ethan

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