25 Oct
2001
25 Oct
'01
6:17 a.m.
--- Iggy Drougge <optimus(a)canit.se> wrote:
I'd like to find one of the external Dell HD floppies for the
Amiga. Nice drives and I wish I had kept mine. I missed out on the
one that was up on eBay a couple of weeks ago. I've never tried any
of the Amtrade HD drives.
Jeff
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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.