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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

835.0. "PRO DRIVE? any info?" by TAMARA::STOLLER (Voice, Catch The Wave) Thu Oct 22 1987 12:19

    I was just talking to Abel Supply last nite (thanx for the hint
    about them keeping their lines open til 10!).  They STILL have
    not received any A500's from Commodore!  They also do not have
    the external 3.5" drives.  They said that they are recommending
    an external (or internal for the A2000) drive called the PRO DRIVE.
    Metal packaging, smaller (?), quieter, lower price ($176+).
    
    Does anyone have any information about this drive?
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835.1Small description of the PRODRIVESIMUL8::STOLLERVoice, Catch The WaveMon Oct 26 1987 10:5712
    Ok, I will answer my own question.  I went down to the Memory Location
    on Saturday.  They had just received it three days earlier.  They
    had been using regularly for those three days with no problems.
    
    The nice things about the drive are that it is SIGNIFICANTLY smaller,
    than the 1010, I was told quieter, and less expensive (ABEL $176, ML: $225;
    versus a 1010 @ ABEL:$198, ML:$250)

    By smaller, I mean about 1.5" tall and a little less wide than the
    1010.
          
    FYI FWIW
835.2BAGELS::BRANNONDave BrannonMon Oct 26 1987 13:394
    re: .1
    what was the Memory Location price for it?
    
    -dave
835.3ML: $225MANANA::STOLLERVoice, Catch The WaveMon Oct 26 1987 15:242
    As stated in .1 (but I do not mind repeating myself) Memory Location
    (ML) price is $225.
835.4LEDS::ACCIARDIMon Oct 26 1987 16:077
    The Software Shop price is $199.
    
    This is the cutest little package I've ever seen.  I think three
    or four of them would fit inside of the standard Amiga 1010 enclosure.
    
    
    
835.5BAGELS::BRANNONDave BrannonMon Oct 26 1987 18:542
    re: .3
    sorry, thought ML was Manufacturer List price.
835.6DICKNS::MACDONALDWA1OMM Listening 52.525Sun Apr 24 1988 12:2311
    Does a ProDrive has a "flippy door" over the diskette slot?
    Also, does the color of the front panel match the Amiga 2000?
    What about mounting hardware as an A2000 internal drive? Is� metal
    mounting hardware supplied? Who manufactures it? NEC?      ^
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                                                              why does
    this character keep appearing along with the message "Key NONAME
    currently has no definition."�
    
                                                         
 
835.7WJG::GUINEAUSun Apr 24 1988 21:5821
>    Does a ProDrive has a "flippy door" over the diskette slot?

Yes.

>    Also, does the color of the front panel match the Amiga 2000?

It matches the A500 pretty close.

>                                                              why does
>    this character keep appearing along with the message "Key NONAME
>    currently has no definition."�

If your on a modem, in the editor it's probably noise taken as keystrokes
by the editor. It doesn't see it as a normal (printable) character, so it
assumes it's a command of some kind but can't find it in it's tables...

John