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From: slackey@bbn.com (Stan Lackey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Was: Flight Sim II <=> XF551 incompatible forever
Keywords: SubLogic sez "bye bye"
Message-ID: <31836@bbn.COM>
Date: 3 Nov 88 17:03:55 GMT
References: <12907@eecae.UUCP> <4578@bsu-cs.UUCP>
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Reply-To: slackey@BBN.COM (Stan Lackey)
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I'm so confused.

In article <4578@bsu-cs.UUCP> cptpower@bsu-cs.UUCP (Mike Wildridge) writes:
>... As any
>other XF551 owner knows - all the stuff on the 1050 is not compatible if you
>notched and wrote on the back of your disk.  (The XF551 writes on the back
>of the disk BACKWARDS - leave it to Atari to make unnecessary improvements.)

I have seen references to this several times now.  Why does anybody care what
the back of a 1050 disk looks like?  Is there a way on the 551 to access the
back of a 1050-formatted disk without turning it over?  Under Atari DOS? 
Please explain using no more than 2-syllable words.
-Stan