appelbau@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Marc L. Appelbaum) (05/11/87)
In the May issue of ANALOG there was a little note about the 3.5" disk
drive. According to ANALOG ATARI scrapped the 3.5" in favor of a 5
1/4". The drive will be a DS/DD, and compatiable with the Indus,
Rana, Trak, etc. Also the ADOS that was being written for the 3.5" in
now being rewritten for the 5 1/4" dirve.
Neil, can you confirm or deny this? Please confirm it, as a 5 1/4"
DSDD drive would really add more power to my already powerful 1200XL.
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-Marc L. Appelbaum
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Bitnet:appelbaum@zodiac.bitnetneil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) (05/12/87)
In article <11893@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>, appelbau@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Marc L. Appelbaum) writes: > > In the May issue of ANALOG there was a little note about the 3.5" disk > drive. According to ANALOG ATARI scrapped the 3.5" in favor of a 5 > 1/4". The drive will be a DS/DD, and compatiable with the Indus, > Rana, Trak, etc. Also the ADOS that was being written for the 3.5" in > now being rewritten for the 5 1/4" dirve. > > Neil, can you confirm or deny this? Please confirm it, as a 5 1/4" If we redesign the disk drive for the 8-bits (possible but not yet definite), it will be done much as described. This makes much more sense than doing a 3.5" drive for the 8-bits -- how would you load existing 8-bit software into a 3.5" drive? By folding the disk in half, perhaps? :-) -- --->Neil Harris, Director of Marketing Communications, Atari Corporation UUCP: ...{hoptoad, lll-lcc, pyramid, imagen, sun}!atari!neil GEnie: NHARRIS/ WELL: neil / BIX: neilharris / Delphi: NEILHARRIS CIS: 70007,1135 / Atari BBS 408-745-5308 / Usually the OFFICIAL Atari opinion
hah@omepd.UUCP (05/14/87)
In article <729@atari.UUCP> neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) writes: >In article <11893@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>, appelbau@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Marc L. Appelbaum) writes: >> >> In the May issue of ANALOG there was a little note about the 3.5" disk >> drive. According to ANALOG ATARI scrapped the 3.5" in favor of a 5 >> 1/4". The drive will be a DS/DD, and compatiable with the Indus, >> Rana, Trak, etc. Also the ADOS that was being written for the 3.5" in >> now being rewritten for the 5 1/4" dirve. >> >> Neil, can you confirm or deny this? Please confirm it, as a 5 1/4" > >If we redesign the disk drive for the 8-bits (possible but not yet >definite), it will be done much as described. This makes much more sense >than doing a 3.5" drive for the 8-bits -- how would you load existing 8-bit >software into a 3.5" drive? By folding the disk in half, perhaps? :-) > >--->Neil Harris, Director of Marketing Communications, Atari Corporation How about a little thingie called a TOOL. This TOOL has just one function in life... to copy files from a disk written under one file format onto a second disk written using a MUCH improved file format. The Atari 810 file format IS the worst disk format in the industry. Hans