#AmigaWorld hardware issu
08-May-93 20:52:14
Sb: #98551-#AmigaWorld hardware issu
Fm: Scott Harris 73717,1162
To: llaflamme 76376,2135
When looking at removable storage, I'd like to see some consideration
of cross-platform compatibility. Many Amiga users also need to use
PCs or Macs sometimes. For instance, if I buy a removable (Syquest,
floptical, Bernoulli, or magneto-optical) drive, I'd like to find one
that can be moved among all 3 platforms… from a company that
_supports_ all 3 platforms (so when I call with a question, they'll
try to answer it, regardless of which of the 3 machines I have it
hooked up to at the time). And I'd also like to know what does and
doesn't work when using these devices to move data between platforms.
For instance, can I hook up the drive to an Amiga, and insert a
cartridge/disk that I was using when I had the device attached to a
PC or Mac, and access tha data from the Amiga? (Assuming, of course,
that the data is in some file format that some Amiga program
understands, ASCII, TIFF, whatever.) ===Scott