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From: c60b-at@buddy.Berkeley.EDU (John Kawakami -0^0-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Atari XF551 comments and inquiry
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Date: 19 Apr 88 20:39:39 GMT
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In article <20281@oliveb.olivetti.com> dragon@olivej.olivetti.com (Give me a quarter or I'll touch you) writes:
>
>I must say I am quite impressed.  I promptly unplugged the 5.25" mechanism
>and stuck a 3.5" 720K in;  no hitches, but I haven't tried formatting it
>to 720K yet (I wonder if the controller can handle the Percom control
>codes).  I'll get around to it this weekend.
>----
>Dean Brunette               {ucbvax,etc.}!hplabs!oliveb!olivej!dragon
>               {ucbvax,etc.}!oliveb!olivej!{dragon-oatc,lobster}!dean
>

From this, I'll infer that this drive acts closest to PC type drives.
If this is true, we should be able to build 3.5" drives using the
XF551 or 551 repair parts.  does anyone know if B&C or AmericanTV
are selling XF551 parts?  It would be great if an "upgrade" for the
1050 drive were possible.

-John
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