[plug] HP to ship the NX5000 (laptop) with SUSE pre-installed.

[Mark O'Shea]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 15:54, skribe wrote:
> My first Amiga HDD (20M) came as a 'sidecar' which was plugged into the Amiga 
> - there was no internal hdd per se.  We then had to format it and install 
> AmigaOS from floppy.  This was standard.  There was no option for a 
> preinstall by the shop geek - they were even more clueless than they are now. 
> If you turned the hdd off overnight you had to lock the it (via an icon on 
> the desktop IIRC) and then unlock it when you restarted. You also had to lock 
> it and remove the hdd f you wanted to move the computer - which we did a lot 
> to play games over a serial cable at one another's homes.  Ah, those were the 
> days =).
> 
I remember my third Amiga was the Amiga 1200, with inbuilt ide
controller.  I got myself a hard drive and opened the case to find that
the internal hard drive bay was only built to hold a laptop hard drive. 
10 minutes and one hacksaw later it fitted (nearly) perfectly.