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From: braner@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: DSDD Floppy disk drives
Message-ID: <460@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 23:02:49 EST
Article-I.D.: batcompu.460
Posted: Thu Mar 19 23:02:49 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 04:38:37 EST
References: <491@iscuva.UUCP>
Reply-To: braner@batcomputer.UUCP (braner)
Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Lines: 19
Keywords: Floppy, DSDD, Atari ST
Summary: SSDD drives are obsolete

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Apparently, the DSDD 3.5" drive is the upcoming standard (now starting to
take over the IBM-PC world).

Plea to Atari:  Please discontinue the bundling of the 520ST with the
single-sided drive.  That device is obsolete, and the existence of two
disk formats in the ST world is a pain.  (Not to mention that all SW
that is to be distributed has to be broken up into those puny 360K pieces...)
Current owners of SS drives should be given a reasonably-priced upgrade path.

Waiting for an ST-microBernoulli connection (20Meg on a 5" removable disk)...
(and/or a SCSI jack in the back of the MegaST...)

- Moshe Braner

PS: If my most cynical guess is right (Atari happens to be stuck with a huge
inventory of SS drives...) then I hope this plea will be heeded some time in
the future.