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From: decouty@irisa.UUCP (Bertrand Decouty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Software that Spectra 128 will not run
Message-ID: <912@irisa.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 89 13:50:28 GMT
References: <881215234741.494601@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM> <2173@nunki.usc.edu> <17578@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> <12764@cup.portal.com>
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In article <12764@cup.portal.com> Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) writes:
|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
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Is it really true? I have received the last Data Pacific newsletter and
the translator one is mentionned. And they have confirmed its availability,
by a personnal letter (4 weeks).
By the way, no reseller can obtain one here in France, so....

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