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From: rosenkra@hall.cray.com (Bill Rosenkranz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Removeable hard disk drive for Atari ST
Message-ID: <349@hall.cray.com>
Date: 28 Feb 89 07:33:02 GMT
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Reply-To: rosenkra@hall.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz)
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In article <4385@cbnews.ATT.COM> pns@cbnews.ATT.COM (Prabhat N. Sahay) writes:
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=	Recently, I heard that someone is coming out with a removable 
=	hard disk drive for Atari ST. These drives are supposed to have 
=	the same access time as the fixed hard disk drives and they are 
=	very cheap (around $300 for the drive and $10 for the disk).
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=	Is this a fact or just plain rumor. Please send me e-mail if you
=	know more about this. I will post a summary of all responses.
=
=	Thanks in advance,
=
=	Prabhat Sahay
=	att!cbdkc1!pns


in Byte a few months ago (the NeXT review issue), there was a blurb about
a (supposedly 100%) ST225-compatible 20 MB removable floppy drive which 
is supposed to be priced to directly compete with the Seagate hard drive.
the article sez the disks would (be made by Kodak?) cost about $8 each.
if it is in fact plug-compatible with the hard drive, you could theoretically
just open up your SH204 and drop this puppy in. how you get the disks in
and out after you close the cover is another matter *8^). finding the disks
could also provide hours of fun...

-bill
rosenkra@hall.cray.com

(some SH204's use ST225's, right?)