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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: vpcs on March 10, 2004, 12:43:35 PM

Title: Floppy made of Gold???
Post by: vpcs on March 10, 2004, 12:43:35 PM: I love Ebay Check out this link... You think they'll pay $50.00 For a cable?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2792354108&category=4598
Title: Re: Floppy made of Gold???
Post by: Lando on March 10, 2004, 12:51:42 PM: Over $200 for a floppy drive and still 3 days left?? What the hell are these people thinking? They could buy a whole A4000 for that!

I wish I could find some place with a big stock of chinon drives going cheap, I could become rich overnight.
Title: Re: Floppy made of Gold???
Post by: Jope on March 10, 2004, 12:56:39 PM: Quote

vpcs wrote:
I love Ebay Check out this link... You think they'll pay $50.00 For a cable?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2792354108&category=4598

Haha, and of course they screwed up the floppy speed issue.

Let's recap (in case someone didn't know):
- Normal floppydrives spin at the same speed regardless
- Amiga drives SLOW DOWN when you insert a HD floppy

The HD floppy is twice as dense as the DD floppy -> data comes at double rate -> you must halve the data rate for the Amiga to keep up.
Title: Re: Floppy made of Gold???
Post by: NightShade737 on March 10, 2004, 01:08:17 PM: I have that drive. They suck to be honest.
Title: Re: Floppy made of Gold???
Post by: Orjan on March 10, 2004, 01:28:32 PM: www.vesalia.de

Search for "floppy"... :)
Title: Re: Floppy made of Gold???
Post by: voxel on March 10, 2004, 01:31:48 PM: @NightShade737

>I have that drive. They suck to be honest.

Perhaps, but it works as intented to, that's all we asked for when it was launched by Commodore : HD floppies.

We got even more than we wanted as it can store 1760Kb per disk, where PeeCee only permit 1440Kb ;-)

BTW, $203 for it is way too much, I know it is quite rare but for less than that amount you can have a Catweasel MkIII PCI/Flipper and/or a Kylwalda floppy adaptator and a high quality PeeCee HD floppy drive you can uses just as this marvelous Chinon original one :-)

BTW II : who uses floppy disks heavilly this days?
Title: Re: Floppy made of Gold???
Post by: vpcs on March 11, 2004, 01:42:39 PM: IT's Now up to $229.50
Title: Re: Floppy made of Gold???
Post by: odin on March 11, 2004, 02:45:59 PM: WTF :-o.

Perhaps I should put my defective HD drive on EBay, should at least get 50USD looking at this price for a working drive. Man, why would anyone pay this much for a diskdrive?!
Title: Re: Floppy made of Gold???
Post by: vpcs on March 13, 2004, 01:09:18 PM: Now It's 275.00 with 4 hours left
Title: Re: Floppy made of Gold???
Post by: vpcs on March 13, 2004, 06:35:21 PM: SOLD For a tidy sum of $275.00
Title: Re: Floppy made of Gold???
Post by: Acill on March 13, 2004, 08:00:58 PM: Damn I thought I would never see the day when a HD drive like that would close at $275. What a wast. You could buy a Catweasel and do the same thing and spend less then half including getting a new drive. Some people just have money to toss away I guess.
Title: Re: Floppy made of Gold???
Post by: adolescent on March 13, 2004, 10:36:03 PM: Or just get an aftermarkey HD drive like an AmTrade. This is the early/taller A4000 model HD drive, so you can't fit another drive under it. I doubt it would fit in the A3000 without some cutting either.
Title: Re: Floppy made of Gold???
Post by: slippymadfrog on March 19, 2004, 05:25:46 AM: Well I just happen to have a few of these and am willing to let them go for the insanely low price of $200 each! Any takers?

;)