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From: braner@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (braner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: RECENT ST PRICEs
Message-ID: <1014@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Sun, 14-Sep-86 11:45:35 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 14 11:45:35 1986
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Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Summary: Any 1040 or DS discounts?

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All the great discounts seem to be for 520ST+monochr+SSdisk.  Anybody
knows about a cheap source for the basic 1040ST package (it is $850
right here at the local dealer - when he can get any...), or for the 520ST
with a double sided drive INSTEAD of the SS, or for DS add-ons?

(I personally cannot stand the thought of being limited to half the disk
capacity.  I waited long to get my 1040!)

Generic (i.e. not specifically for the ST) double-sided 3.5" drives are
now available for about $100 some places.  Can anybody tell us how to
connect them to the ST?  Is it just a matter of finding the $%#@& connector,
and the pinout on the back of the drive? (And getting a power-supply for
the drive - or can we run it off the 1040ST assuming we don't turn more
than one drive at a time?)  Or is there more to this black art?  Is the
$200 to $300 otherwise charged reasonable? (If the cable is $30 and the
PS/box is $30 then $250 for the finished thing may be OK...)

- Moshe Braner