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From: SRPDSDJ@trev.dsir.govt.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Novice questions about ST's and MIDI
Message-ID: <7950@trev.dsir.govt.nz>
Date: 18 Jan 91 10:52:03 GMT
Organization: DSIR, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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I have a series of questions about MIDI and Ataris in general.

Where I live the salespeople are basically unctuous, arrogant, facile fools 
and will not aor perhaps could not answer my questions :-( .

What I want to know specifically is the following.
1) is a 520st powerful enough to run MIDI software. If not recommendations.
2) can a non-atari hard disk be installed on an atari. How and which ones.
3)  "     "   "    monitor   "      "      "    "       "   "    "     "

I am connected to the net but only via an IBM PC clone (386sx 80Mb HDD hence 
the reason for asking about the hard drive above, I hate running machines 
from floppies they are so slow in comparison, :-) ) 

4) Can this IBM clone uudecode, unarc, zoo extract etc, files from 
   comp.binaries.atari.st and then save them in a format that the atari 
   would then be able to read (I have a 3.5" floppy drive). If not are there 
   any work arounds.
5) I have only recently begun reading this newsgroup, if there is a 
   freqently asked questions file can anyone forward this or point me in the 
   right direction.

All replies by email would be greatly appreciated?
 
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