Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!oberon!nunki.usc.edu!castor.usc.edu!rjung From: rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Atari hookup to IBM hard drives Message-ID: <473@nunki.usc.edu> Date: 14 Mar 88 05:41:45 GMT References: <1988Mar3.231347.12961@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1394@alliant.Alliant.COM> Sender: news@nunki.usc.edu Reply-To: rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung) Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 27 In article <1394@alliant.Alliant.COM> lackey@alliant.UUCP (Stan Lackey) writes: > >On a different subject: I have been noticing hard disk drives available for >IBM PC's in mail-order catalogs for as little as $199 for 10MB. It seems an >interesting thing to do might be to adapt one of those to the atari. I >don't have the slightest idea how to do it, but am an experienced hardware >designer, and have done a lot of 6502 assem lang as well. Anybody want to >team up? I live in eastern Mass, if that matters. I do believe ICD's MIO interface package is supposed to let you hook up "standard SCSI controller" hard disks to the 8-bit Atari. I agree, it would be terrific if it works, because then it's a (relatively) cheap source of mass storage. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about SCSI-compatability, except that it's claimed. Any information you get would be appreciated by a *lot* of us here, I believe. --R.J. B-) ______________________________________________________________________________ Bitnet: rjung@castor.usc.edu "Who needs an Amiga?" = == = = == = Power WithOUT the Price = == = ===== == ===== Just because it's 8-bits doesn't make it obsolete. ==== == ====