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Offline ferrellsl

Re: Who here agrees this is the worst technology...
« on: October 27, 2013, 07:04:50 PM »
Quote from: duga;751245
Looks silly.


It looks no more silly than the A1000 Sidecar or all the other external HD and memory  enclosures for the A500 and A1000.

And it's no more silly than all the external CD-ROMs that were connected to most Amigas.  It seems that no one here thinks external CD drives are ridiculous but they want to point fingers at external hard drives.  It doesn't make sense.
 

Offline ferrellsl

Re: Who here agrees this is the worst technology...
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2013, 09:59:35 PM »
Quote from: AmigaClassicRule;751322
Yeah it makes sense.


That was my point.  I think the enclosure is just fine and it served a valuable purpose in its day.  When this was introduced there were very few if any PCMCIA cards available for use in an A1200, and with the price of RAM and hard drives at the time, no one was very worried about PCMCIA cards causing memory location problems.  It looks no better or worse than the countless other HD/RAM enclosures for other Amigas.    

Knowing what we do today and having so many other expansion options available at low cost, at first it does appear impractical, but in the proper historical context, it makes/made perfect sense.