11 Oct
2008
11 Oct
'08
8:47 p.m.
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 05:10:30PM -0700, r.stricklin wrote:
On Oct 11, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
One might argue that given the cool reception the users had to that
particular drive, it wasn't successful in the Amiga either.
I have several - one in my A4000 and at least one in a couple of A3000s.
They were, to me, essential, for trading things between PCs and Amigas
before everyone had a network card and/or was on the Internet.
ISTR they were well over $100 each, so I only bought one for each of
the machines that got daily use. I don't recall any reliability problems
with them that weren't cheap-media related.
The "nice" thing about them is that they are (electrically) compatible
with every Amiga made. I can't guarantee that they fit inside every
case style as FD0:, but you can plug them in and they will work, right
back to a 1985 A1000.
-ethan
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>Nobody
has successfully used a 3.5" at 150RPM. Yet.
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Philip Pemberton wrote:
What about the old Amiga high-density drives that
ran at 300RPM for
DSDD and
150RPM for DSHD?
Sorry, I forgot about them.
I've never had any Amigas THAT new.