25 Oct
2001
25 Oct
'01
5:25 a.m.
--- Iggy Drougge <optimus(a)canit.se> wrote:
That was also done by good old cost-cutting Commodore
in order to add HD
capabilities to the Amiga 3000 and 4000. They ordered a batch of
custom-made drives which would step down to half the rate when using HD
floppies, so that the same old floppy controller could keep up.
But the big benefit was that it worked with _all_ Amigas, not just the
A3000 and A4000. I doubt many people used an external 1.44Mb floppy
drive with an A1000, but it works.
Which makes using Commodore's HD drives nearly
unbearably slow, I might
add.
That _is_ too true. :-( Still, I bought one for each A3000 I had, and
my A4000 came with one. They were *expensive* too - about $100 USD, IIRC.
-ethan
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