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echo: 64_talk
to: Ben Dewberry
from: Russell Alphey
date: 1993-12-18 21:49:00
subject: Enhanced Density Disks

>  RA> Can I ask you where you got your FD
 >  RA> (whatever model it is), and how much it

 > Its and FD4000 and I got it through NOVO COMPUTER HARDWARE.

Heard of it, and them!  :)

 > It has the Real Time Clock option which brought the price all up

Useful?

 > including del.&ins. to ......wait for it....$725.00



 > I also had the Jiffy Dos kernal rom thrown in free(but I'm not allowed

I didn't hear that!  :)

 > to tell anybody) as I had already purchased the drive roms a little
 > while ago in anticipation for a Ramlink (which has JD in it) but I
 > changed the planned puchases and got the FD instead.

Are you happy with it?

 > You could try going direct to CMD but the exchange rate might make the

I have a friend who pays in the US for me, when necessary.  :)

 > cost even higher. (NOVO based their prices on the exchange rate of
 > about a year ago).  Anyway this drive seems to be the closest thing to
 > being a hard drive without actually being one.  Unlike a Ramlink extra
 > megs only cost a few dollars a meg.

That's a pretty reasonable attitude!  Can you create subdirectories on the
thing?  Does most/all software handle it?

R.

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