RG> Part of the reason for the near 100% compatibilty with the CMD HD drives
 RG> is because they generally plug into the serial port, same as any other
 RG> CBM drive..  however, they do have the provision of hooking them up via
 RG> a parallel cable if you also have a Ramlink, this makes 'em 7 or 8
 RG> times faster loading.

Well the price for the RAMLINK was $535 for 0 meg, and $60 extra for 1 meg.
I decided not to buy it.  I am however buying the HD170 for $1150, $10
delivery, $115 for Swiftlink+cable.  I put the order in today, it will be
here in 10 days or so.  Thanks for the offer of swapping the FD4000, but I
decided not to take it up.  BFN.

P.S. Something I didn't ask, because it won't affect my decision to buy,
but is the hard disk faster at loading programs than the 1571?  Or in C64
mode is it faster than the 1541?

Paul

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