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From: csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari 540ST Questions
Message-ID: <1991May28.143101.4285@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 28 May 91 14:31:01 GMT
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mforget@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget) writes:

>Yes, there is a 720K floppy drive built in.  The older systems had 360K 
>floppies, but the newer ones don't.  It is fairly fast, but don't expect 
>miracles.  It seems faster than the IBM counterparts, though.  There are 
>also the usual assortment of Hard Drives available.  I haven't seen any 
>CD-Roms yet or Optical Drives yet, though.  There are removable Hard 
>Drive cartridge systems and 10 MEG floppies, though.

Atari sells two kind of CD-ROMs. The CDAR504 has a ACSI port, the CDAR505
is a SCSI device. There is also a MOD from Sony.

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