>--- Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_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.
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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Received on Thu Oct 25 2001 - 13:17:36 BST