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From: dragon@olivej.olivetti.com (Give me a quarter or I'll touch you)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Atari XF551 comments and inquiry
Message-ID: <20303@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Date: 19 Apr 88 23:30:42 GMT
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in article <2540@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>, John Kawakami -0^0- says:
 
> 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
> ->)| John Kawakami |(<-                 ->)| c60b-at@buddy.berkeley.edu |(<-
> "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think"  -Dorothy Parker


The drive in XF551 is the same interface as an IBM PC/XT drive.  When
pulling a drive out of an IBM, all one must do to get it to work in the
XF551 is change the drive select jumper.

The XF551 also uses normal mounting holes on the side of the mechanism.
The 1050 used the less common holes on the bottom of the mechanism.

I don't know when anyone will be selling parts for the drive--it took the
local places quite a while to get 130XE parts after the 130XE came out.

--Dean


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