Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Xorg
From: Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Software that Spectra 128 will not run
Message-ID: <12764@cup.portal.com>
Date: 20 Dec 88 23:26:28 GMT
References: <881215234741.494601@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM> <2173@nunki.usc.edu> <17578@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Lines: 14

Dave Small is currently feverishly working on Spectre GCR.  This is
a hardware/software package that will allow *direct* read/writes
of Mac disks ala Translator only much faster and much more reliably.
Dave says the hardware is finished and he is currently putting the
software together, then all it needs is FCC approval (unlike the
Translator which was marketed without - one reason why Data Pacific
doesn't make it anymore :-]) - estimated release date is April/May 89
and a price of under $250 (!!!) is rumored for the whole thing!

Pete

p.s.  Just to clarify, GCR is Spectre 128 only upgraded and with the
      hardware necessary to do the read/writes.  Dave promises a
      liberal trade-in for curreny buyers of 128 towards GCR.