ScuzzBlog: Diaries January 2019 Entry 21st January 2019: Post 02: Amiga Disk Expander Amiga Disk Expander Sorry but there is no way I can explain just how the very wonderful Disk Expander works by Schatztruhe and created by Stefan Ossowski cus in truth I have never used it. I guess in my day I must have pretty well tried every thing else. Following on from my review of Vidi-Amiga I thought I would mention the nightmare that was disk storage. From my frequent visits to the computer store to buy endless boxes of floppy disks I started to think that the Amiga was a clever ploy just top sell DD floppy disks. The guys at the counter of the shop must have been rubbing their hands when they sold me the Amiga knowing I would be in there nearly every other day for disks. So the idea of archiving as a means to increasing disk space had been implemented as soon as I could set up DOpus to run LHA. There were also bits of software that could be used to convert the drive drawers to be archives and so again reduce disk space. If you can pick up a copy of Amiga Computing cover disk for September 1995 you will find a splendid piece of software called ARCHandler which really did do what the featured software does. The cost of MB storage was very high for a very long time. There was none of the bottomless pits of storage you get today. Not sure when things changed that dramatically, but I guess its when CD burners came in and then the USB sticks. Anyway if you want to read about the Amiga Disk Expander then knock yourself out. For me it is just a reminder of the days when computer storage was very very very very expansive. By the way nothing dates the Amiga retro era more than the use of the word ' DISK ' and not as is today ' DISC '. Whenever I see the word disk it always conjures up so much for the Amiga Amiga Disk Expander

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