From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
Date: Sat,  7 Nov 92 19:50:14 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <36617@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Nov3.185053.44366@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
  <36692@cbmvax.commodore.com>

>In article <1992Nov3.185053.44366@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.ukans.
e
>du writes:
>> In article <36617@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Ro
b
>bins) writes:
>> > In article <1992Nov2.090012.44313@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.uk
a
>ns.edu writes:
[about the 1200]
>> > It has an 880Kb floppy.
>>             ^^^^^
>> Thats too bad, i guess i won't be getting a A1200!  Why is it that Commodore
>> is the only computer manufacturer who doesn't have a HD floppy as its
>> least common denominator? (granted I don't know about Atari but then again,
>> they don't really count :)) I mean its bad enough that commodore came out
>> with the 2 speed kludge so late but now they are still not making it standar
d
>?
>> A HD floppy should be standard on all Amigas introduced since the 3000! I
>> probably wouldn't have bought the 3000 if I didn't think that Commodore woul
d
>> have a HD floppy RSN (of course that was in Jan 1991) and look at what
>> happened. Its these little everyday things that make a BIG deal to people.
>> How much room does a super hires interlaced ham8 pic take up? Can't move
>> many of those between machines if any at all on one floppy!  Oh well, just
>> my .02 worth, I just wanted you guys to know that even though you might not
>> lose a 'lot' of sales because of that, you have lost SOME, namely mine!
>> Good job on the 4000 though! :-)
>> and AmigaDOS 3.0!
>
>Arghh, I post a simple answer and get a petite diatribe in return.  I'll admit
>that a HD floppy would be nice, perhaps very nice, but I'm not sure whether
                                         ^^^^^^^^^
Hey, I have a GREAT marketing idea (something CBM should try).  Give the
public what is very-nice instead of "essential" and they will go out of
their way to buy it.  Even pay more money in many cases.  Do people only buy ca
rs
that are outfitted with only "essential" items, or cars that also offer
"nice" items?  This is partly why Apple has had success.  They add touches
of "class", not just the "essentials."

>it is really essential on a machine with a built-in hard drive capability.
              ^^^^^^^^^
Possibly.  A built-in HD has nothing whatsoever to do with the larger format
of removable media.  After 7 years of existance, there most definately
should be an increase in the Amiga's floppies - though even this sad remedy
is only halve of an increase (speed hasn't changed, only capacity).

>Is this really a buy/no-buy point for you?

Yes.  Why won't you listen?  When will CBM try to improve across the board
instead of defending the placement of ancient (in computer terms) technology
into otherwise new and fairly impressive machines?

>George Robbins - now working for,     work:   to be avoided at all costs...
>but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!g
r
>r
>Commodore, Engineering Department     domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
>

-Joel
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