[net.micro.atari] 520ST at Hanover fair

kevin@voder.UUCP (The Last Bugfighter) (04/26/85)

> At the Hannover Fair here in Germany I have seen two 520 ST.
> They were both running with 512kB, 1mB drives, monochrome
> and color monitor. GEM was much faster than on PC-compatibles.
> Release date: about end of July (not offical).
>
>                           Uwe Hoch

   One Megabyte drives?  Everything I've read has mentioned either a
single sided 250k drive or a double sided 500k drive.  Is this some-
thing new?

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Kevin Thompson   {ucbvax,ihnp4!nsc}!voder!kevin

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vr0z05@unido.UUCP (05/03/85)

I think that this is something new! I got a sheet of paper at the
Hannover Fair with the specifications of computer and floppies.
In this paper were only mentioned the 520 ST CPU and the SF 314 and
SF 354 floppies.

The SF 314 is 3.5" and 1 Mbyte,
the SF 354 is 3.5" and 0.5 Mbyte.
Both are "compatible"(?!) to the 520 ST and have a seriell ATARI-Interface.
I don't know what "compatible" means in this case. The 250 Kbyte Floppy
was neither mentioned, nor shown. SF 354 and SF 314 were both working.


			 Uwe Hoch
			 Computer Science Department
			 University of Dortmund
			 4600 Dortmund 50
			 P.O. Box 500500
			 West Germany