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From: neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: New ATARI Drives
Message-ID: <729@atari.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-May-87 13:15:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: atari.729
Posted: Tue May 12 13:15:53 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 15-May-87 02:48:20 EDT
References: <11893@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Organization: Atari Corp/Mktg
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Keywords: 5 1/4" DS/DD

In article <11893@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>, appelbau@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Marc L. Appelbaum) writes:
> 
> In the May issue of ANALOG there was a little note about the 3.5" disk
> drive.  According to ANALOG ATARI scrapped the 3.5" in favor of a 5
> 1/4".  The drive will be a DS/DD, and compatiable with the Indus,
> Rana, Trak, etc.  Also the ADOS that was being written for the 3.5" in
> now being rewritten for the 5 1/4" dirve.
> 
> Neil, can you confirm or deny this?  Please confirm it, as a 5 1/4"

If we redesign the disk drive for the 8-bits (possible but not yet
definite), it will be done much as described.  This makes much more sense
than doing a 3.5" drive for the 8-bits -- how would you load existing 8-bit
software into a 3.5" drive?  By folding the disk in half, perhaps? :-)

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