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From: mwjester@wsuiar.uucp (Max Jester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Indus GT drive, useless? maybe not...
Message-ID: <150.264046a9@wsuiar.uucp>
Date: 3 May 90 19:56:41 GMT
References: <24639@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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Organization: Wichita State Univ., Wichita KS
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In article <24639@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>,
 c9b-ac@dorothy.Berkeley.EDU (Benson) writes:
> ...
> Question:	Sorry if it is a naive question, but is it possible to 
> 		use the Indus drive on another computer? (ie. ibm pc,
> 		mac, etc..).
> 
> 		or is that plain impossible?  since the drive was orignally
> 		geared for atari computers.  
> ...

I think it depends on the drive mechanism. If it is DSDD, you can probably
take the bare drive and add it to a PC.  A SSDD drive would also work with
most controllers, but you would be limited to 180K on the disk, i.e. you
couldn't read a standard messydos disk with it.

I don't know what mechanism Indus used, but I presume that the manufacturer
would put a part number on it somewhere.  Someone somewhere (yea, in this
very forum even) can probably tell you from that if the drive is SSDD or
DSDD.

Hope this helps - Good luck!

Max Jester
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