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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: New ATARI Drives
Message-ID: <671@omepd>
Date: Wed, 13-May-87 21:07:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: omepd.671
Posted: Wed May 13 21:07:27 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 08:48:24 EDT
References: <11893@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <729@atari.UUCP>
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Reply-To: hah@isum.UUCP (Hans Hansen)
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro
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In article <729@atari.UUCP> neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) writes:
>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? :-)
>
>--->Neil Harris, Director of Marketing Communications, Atari Corporation

How about a little thingie called a TOOL.  This TOOL has just one function
in life... to copy files from a disk written under one file format onto
a second disk written using a MUCH improved file format.  The Atari 810
file format IS the worst disk format in the industry.

Hans