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From: csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod)
Subject: Re: 1.44 MB project
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.150348.22250@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Keywords: Floppy Disk
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
References: <none> <5827@wucc.waseda.ac.jp>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 15:03:48 GMT
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ytsuji@wucc.waseda.ac.jp (Y.Tsuji) writes:

>I posted an appeal for beta testers of a  1.44 MB drive hack six weeks
>ago and have received 23 responses. I admit the instructions were
>not intelligible to people who had never used soldering irons, but to
>be honest, I had expected at least one person would succeed to build a
>fine adaptor or at least one person would be asking me to lend the
>adaptor.  I shouldn't have been surprised to realise how really few
>people are seriously committed to ATARI ST. After all, we haven't had
>real applications other than music and printing.

The problem with your appeal is that we all already have HD disks connected
to our STs 8-) - at least in Germany. I was one of the developpers of this
hack; our article appeared in 'ST-Computer' 1/90. Commercial HD disk
adapters are available at every corner, and the principles used are
published. This is probably why you got such a weak response.

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