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#HD Amiga

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#147282From: Lu BeranekMay 20, 1994 9:24 PM
> While you CAN use an Amiga without a hard disk I would say it's only OK > if you're playing games or are not really interested in multitasking. I sort of agree with you – I did recently sell a hard disk to a friend of mine who, until this time, had been plugging along quite happily with an A500 with 1meg of RAM, running his wordprocessor and a few other odds and ends and I remember thinking if he had a clone system, what minimum configuration would have to have just to do that at that speed (did need disk swapping, but he just followed the system orders :). 'Course, now that he has a 40meg HD and 5meg RAM, he can't do without one either 🙂 regards, Lu on AutoPilot downunder
#147583From: Paul HigginbottomMay 21, 1994 8:47 PM
That's a very common situation, that is, once you have a hard drive on an Amiga, it's excrutiating to go back to a system without one. I remember one time after I'd had my A2000 with an 030 for a few years that I had to do something on an unexpanded A500. It was pretty awful, I found.