25th March 2006, 12:37 PM
How is the 64DD not a hard drive? From the dissections I've seen, when you open the plastic case, you get a hard metal disk underneath. That's the very definition of a hard drive. And, if you want proof it's a hard drive, I'll throw the disk at your head, then YOU can tell me if it's hard or not!
Exactly what sort of odd definition are you running under when you define hard drive? It isn't the standard one. There are basically two sorts of magnetic storage, floppy and hard. Floppy only means the internal disk in whatever case it's in is "floppy". It's the black magnetic film arranged in a disk shape. A hard disk, on the other hand, is a hard think piece of metal arranged into a disk shape. The 64DD used the latter. It used hard drives. It's the same thing as those old "ZIP drives" from the ages long ago.
Exactly what sort of odd definition are you running under when you define hard drive? It isn't the standard one. There are basically two sorts of magnetic storage, floppy and hard. Floppy only means the internal disk in whatever case it's in is "floppy". It's the black magnetic film arranged in a disk shape. A hard disk, on the other hand, is a hard think piece of metal arranged into a disk shape. The 64DD used the latter. It used hard drives. It's the same thing as those old "ZIP drives" from the ages long ago.
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