| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 217.1 | Starflite | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Tue Dec 16 1986 13:54 | 22 |
| When I got my system without the second drive, I called around to several
of the mailorder places with ads in Amiga World. I remember that Starflite
beat the GO Amiga price by a modest $10-$15. I think that the price
was $235 or $245 plus about $5 shipping. Since I had some software on
backorder with Starflite and they had the lowest price, I ordered the
drive from them. I canceled the backorder (in effect converting the
backorder to an order for the drive).
They even gave me an additional $15 off the price of the drive because
they felt guilty about the backordered software. (They did this without
any prompting from me.)
The drive showed up 5 (yes 5!) days after I ordered.
Starflite Telemarketing
1-800-423-7347
P.O. Box 685
Nitro, WV 25143
Dawn, you can even come over to my house to see if the drive is of the
revision that you want to get. (My Amiga that I ordered from Starflite
was one of the Amigas of the pre-ExtraHalfBrite mode vintage.)
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| 217.2 | Second Drive | DNEAST::PARENT_TODD | | Mon Oct 31 1988 19:43 | 7 |
| Does anyone else out there in Amigaland know of any other places
to get an inexpensive floppy drive for an Amiga 2000. I tried CMO
but thier price was too high. I also tried Abel but they didn't
have anything worthwhile.
-Todd
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| 217.3 | | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Mon Oct 31 1988 21:50 | 22 |
| depends on what you call "inexpensive".
Try a computer fleamarket or the ads in Computer Shopper. Look
for 3.5" 720K floppy drives for ibmpcs. The A2000 already has
the amiga specific interface hardware for a second 3.5" floppy. You
just need to enable jumper 301. It is located near the spot where
the floppy drive cable connects to the motherboard. Look between
that connector and the power supply for two pins stick up, you need
put a jumper over them.
Those drives at the last fleamarket ranged in price from $79 to
over $100. One problem is that the front bezel is usually black,
it doesn't match the CBM disk drive.
I got around that problem by buying a PHOENIX external drive. Other
than having a yellow LED instead of red, it was an exact match for
the bezel. It also gives me the option of freeing up that 3.5"
bay in the future when I win the lottery and buy that 100mb Conner
3.5" disk drive :-)
-Dave
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| 217.4 | | WJG::GUINEAU | | Tue Nov 01 1988 08:02 | 3 |
| > bay in the future when I win the lottery and buy that 100mb Conner
> 3.5" disk drive :-)
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| 217.5 | | MTWAIN::MACDONALD | WA1OMM 7.093/145.05/223.58 AX.25 | Tue Nov 01 1988 10:15 | 2 |
| NEC drives are very quiet and very reliable. They also have a dust
door. $145 at the Software Shop.
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