Reading 1.76 meg disks ...

[Doobrey]

Hyperspeed wrote:
Why did they give the A1200 an 880K drive anyway when the A4000 got a 1.76MB high-density.

2 words.. cost cutting.
The same reason they didn't include any fast ram that would have doubled performance on the A1200.. or an FPU (even though the motherboard was designed to take one),or a battery backed clock(ditto), or a hard drive as standard.
 They even cut out 2 resistors, a transistor and an LED that would have given a PCMCIA activity light just to save a few pennies.

[Doobrey]

odin wrote:
 I seem to remember from an article in some British mag that C= said that it was either 2MB chipmem standard or a HD diskdrive. So C= chose for more RAM.

What? C= made a sensible decision? Where's the 'faints in suprise' smiley when you need one ..
 I remember the original idea was for a 1MB A1200 with the option for another 1MB upgrade in what is now the clockport header, but I didn't know they were thinking of a HD floppy though.