Epic Amiga battle on osnews.com Extra Floppy vs No Extra Floppy!

[Gazbonk]

I had an A500 with 1.3 Roms, 1 meg chip ram, ICD AdRam 540 with 4 meg Ram & AdRam 560 2 meg = 6.5 meg, three external floppy drives.

Was great for running loads of disks on workbench, great for multiple disk games  and excellent for multi disk demos, this was well before CD drives and the internet as we know it,

Did also have a hayes 2400 modem which I used to go on the bulletin board at Black Dog Towers in London uk (PD disk for bulletin boards), I dont think there were any internet browsers for the A500 at the time.

Wish I never sold that old A500 cost me a small fortune.

[amiga-penn-wchester]

I would say that almost everyone in America who actually had an amiga 1000 or 500 had a 2nd drive.  The operating system was powerful enough that 1 drive cramped you up so hard that you needed the 2nd drive to do anything but play 512k games.  Even with the ram disk.  2nd disk came first, before fatter agnus, before 1+meg extra ram.

[Gilthanaz]

If the Amiga situation in Europe was the same as the C64 situation, I'll believe that external floppy drives were rare there.  In Europe the datasette remained the main data storage device for the C64 and external floppy drives were a lot more rare there --- in fact in Europe there were all sorts of fast loader devices/software for making datasette loading faster.  Here in Canada (and I assume the USA) most people dumped their datasettes when upgrading from the VIC-20 to a nice new C64 with 1541 drive.

Hi!

I can not confirm that. I started with an C64-I (Breadbox) around 1987/88 and it came already with an 1541. My brother and several friends who were lucky enough to also own a C64 back then, all had disk drives. In fact i did only learn about the datasette later when i saw someone using a datasette on a C64 and asked them what they are doing with that

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