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From: charles@c3pe.UUCP (Charles Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: US Doubler
Summary: Happy 1050 allows PC-DOS data interchange
Keywords: Happy USDoubler PC-DOS
Message-ID: <7543@c3pe.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 89 01:25:03 GMT
References: <4094@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: charles@c3pe.UUCP (Charles Green)
Organization: C3 Incorporated, Herndon, VA
Lines: 14

In article <4094@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> robby@vax1.acs.udel.EDU writes:
> [about the USDoubler giving 180k storage capacity, and asks whether
>  this allows data interchange with the IBM PC]

Just another observation that the Happy upgrade now allows 1050 owners to
both read and write single-sided PC-DOS diskettes.  (The diskettes have to
be *formatted* on a real PC clone, because the 1050 can't sense the index
hole, but some PC clone disk controllers get upset if the index hole goes
flying by at an unexpected area on the disk.)  I have it, and it works.

My understanding of the US Doubler is that it can do 256-byte sectors, but not
the 512-byte sectors used by PC-DOS.
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