Amiga 1000 Hard Drives...

[steven stengel]

Good luck! You might be better off borrowing, or sending the disks to someone with an Amiga 2000 (or greater) - they almost always have hard drives. With CrossDOS, they can copy the data to IBM floppy disks. Please define "a ton"...



--- On Sat, 10/17/09, Curt @ Atari Museum <curt at atarimuseum.com> wrote:

> From: Curt @ Atari Museum <curt at atarimuseum.com>
> Subject: Amiga 1000 Hard Drives...
> To: "On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 4:31 PM
> Yeah yeah, I know....  What does
> an Atari guy need with an Amiga HD.    I have a
> ton of Lynx developer disks, all in Amiga format that I need
> to read and I have an Amiga 1000, so to make things easier
> I'd like to add a Hard Drive onto it for doing the OS load
> up, using the Cloanto tools and transfer those disks over to
> my PC.
> 
> Now for a guy who 20 years ago used to get involved in the
> numerous Atari vs. Amiga battles, I find it interesting that
> there are more hard disk interfaces for the ST's then you
> can count, yet for the life of me, I can't seem to clearly
> find any Amiga 1000 hard drive interfaces with the exception
> of the Pheonix motherboard
> replacement.   Anyone on the list who's an
> Amiga fan know exactly where I can find a hard disk solution
> for the Amiga (commercial or homebrew) that is still
> actively and easily available.
> 
> 
> Curt
> 
> 
>