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From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Advice: MIDI Atari or Mac?
Message-ID: <1991May14.213209.1094@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: 14 May 91 21:32:09 GMT
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In article <59827@aurs01.UUCP> whitcomb@aurw04.UUCP (Jonathan Whitcomb) writes:
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>The newer Atari ST's format disks that may be read by a PC,

May I clarify that the 'old' STs can read and write PC disks as well,
however, the difference is that the desktop formatter now writes a 
critical 3-number hex identifier which MS-DOS systems require, whereas the
older desktop did not.  There are quite a few PD formatting programs which 
will write the identifier.


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