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Subject: hard disk, battery clock (to Neil@Atari)
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Date: Mon, 11-Aug-86 13:25:04 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 11 13:25:04 1986
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Hooray, I finally saw a hard drive in the store.  Looks pretty good
to me, but I have a few questions (for Neil@Atari, I suppose).

1) Will there be a version of TOS in ROM that will know how to access
   the hard disk as the boot drive?  The disk is very nice, but I would
   like to see a floppy-less capability for max speed reboot w/o needing
   a special diskette in the floppy (as this means you might need to
   change a floppy).
   
2) (I forgot to check) are desk accessories fetched off the floppy or
   the hard drive?

3) What is going on between the cartridge-port clock device and the
   hard disk?  (I recall a recent posting from Atari.)  Incidentally,
   will Atari ever put a battery (or other type that will hold time
   across powerdowns) clock in the ST family?  Given that the machine
   is really good now, this feature would give it a load of class.
   It is one of the convenience features that every serious computer
   should have.