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From: pjd@mandrill (dr. funk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Atari XF551 comments and inquiry
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Date: 18 Apr 88 15:07:36 GMT
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I hope the XF551 is available! I ordered one from Lyco
and they claim that the 551 is in stock. (Won't be either
the first or last time that I've been lied to, however :-)
It is shipping WITHOUT the new Atari operating system and
this may pose a problem for me as I only have copies
of 3.0 and 2.0 (not even 2.5!)

After thinking about the 551 pricing, $180 isn't too
outrageous given that the drive, power supply, case,
controller, etc. add up to about $140-$150. Kick in a
fair profit to all parties concerned and $180 isn't too bad.

What are the recommendations for a true double-side
operating system? I'm not partial to menu driven stuff,
so a command line interpreter is prefered (and then,
bride of Unix is prefered over son of MS-DOS.)

Thanks, as they say, in advance....

pj drongowski