From: elauren@hubcap.clemson.edu (Addison Laurent)
Subject: Re: A1200 and LD vs HD drives
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:11:02 GMT

sl1zm@cc.usu.edu writes:

>> About this guy who ranted for the lack of an HD drive in the 1200:
>> 
>> this 'but' is??)  I can attest personally to the fact that double
>> density drives are becoming a thing of the past in the Clone
>> world and Macintoshes are following suit.  Which means that 1200 you

>As a sales person that actually has to sell the machines to customers
>I can tell you that it is hard to tell a customer that it doesn't have
>a high density drive and then to tell them it's a better machine than a clone.
>I have to start making excuses.  And then when they say "well, can I have
>you put one in it?" I have to tell them no becouse Commodore won't sell me
>the drive by itself.

So you'd rather have mass confusion? (Which existed in the mac & PC
world for several years.. and is just now starting to abate...
(and you can get it from the company that makes it - $160 (I don't
remember off the top of my head the company or part number)

In a place with XTs & AT's? Need to transfer a file? "Larry, can I have
the report?"
"Sure, here you are..."
"Disk error? huh? Larry, is this a High Density?"
"Yep... lemme copy it on a low density"

I've had this happen *a lot*... I think C= _should_ not have gone to a
HD floppy... go to a floptical, or some other device thats not
confusable with a low density disk.. etc. 
Or at least something that doesn't go to half speed... the extra storage
space is nice, but I think it was a bad idea, ESPECIALLY in light of
what HAS happened to the mac & PC markets when HD floppies came out.

This *is* a problem when you have 2 different formats such as these
floating around..

>Lets just say that it *has* made me loose sales becouse people don't think
>the Amiga is keeping up with the competition.

Of course they're not.. (until AGA) - that was a moot point....

>CBM should seriously consider shipping the 1200 with an HD drive in the
>US... I think they would gain more sales from having the HD drive than the
>extra cost would loose.

Well, yes. If you're going to go to a HD drive, go to it.

>Besides?  What market research went into the decision to have a low density
>drive???  You *certainly* didn't ask us which would sell better!!!!

>If marketing has any questions, maybe they should ask their dealers before
>they decide whats best for them.

Marketing? Surely you aren't SERIOUS.... ask questions? Find out what
would sell? Surely you jest... (remember, the power-up deal was a
mistake) They didn't even bother to look at history to see the problems
HD & low density had when introduced into  the PC and other markets

Addison
P.S. - I was real excited when I got my 3000, and the 1st thing I did
was put a high-density disk in the drive & format... which it did... I
like having it... but I really wish that instead of going to the HD
floppy (half-speed, and behind the competion by several years, that C=
had gone to a whole new system... 20M floptical, for instance, etc..., 4
M floppy, something....)
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