michaela@iscuva.UUCP (Michael Albo) (03/17/87)
Does anyone know of the availability, source and price of a raw floppy disk drive that I could use to replace my SF-354 Atari drive. I just find the $200+ price tag of an SF-314 unreasonable when all I want is to replace the one I am using now. I only wish Atari had let those of us with fairly old ST's purchase them with available double sided drives at the time we purchased them. thanks Michael Albo
braner@batcomputer.UUCP (03/20/87)
[] Apparently, the DSDD 3.5" drive is the upcoming standard (now starting to take over the IBM-PC world). Plea to Atari: Please discontinue the bundling of the 520ST with the single-sided drive. That device is obsolete, and the existence of two disk formats in the ST world is a pain. (Not to mention that all SW that is to be distributed has to be broken up into those puny 360K pieces...) Current owners of SS drives should be given a reasonably-priced upgrade path. Waiting for an ST-microBernoulli connection (20Meg on a 5" removable disk)... (and/or a SCSI jack in the back of the MegaST...) - Moshe Braner PS: If my most cynical guess is right (Atari happens to be stuck with a huge inventory of SS drives...) then I hope this plea will be heeded some time in the future.
sansom@trwrb.UUCP (03/27/87)
In article <491@iscuva.UUCP> michaela@iscuva.UUCP (Michael Albo) writes: >Does anyone know of the availability, source and price of a raw floppy >disk drive that I could use to replace my SF-354 Atari drive... Try B & C Computervision, 3283 Kifer Rd., Santa Clara, CA 95051 (408)749-1004. I bought a DSDD drive mechanism from them for $100 about 3 months ago. -Rich -- /////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ /// Richard E. Sansom TRW Electronics & Defense Sector \\\ \\\ {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!trwrb!sansom Redondo Beach, CA /// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////