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From: maverick@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Steve Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Drives
Summary: 1.44 Megs with Spectre GCR?
Keywords: ibm drives 1.44 meg
Message-ID: <1007@Portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 20 Mar 89 01:16:52 GMT
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In article <7586@killer.Dallas.TX.US>, chasm@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Charles Marslett) writes:
[Stuff about 1.44 Meg drives deleted.]
< 
< They will be 720K drives to the Atari however, since to get them to work at
< 1.44 Mbytes/disk, you have to send and recieve bits at twice the standard
< rate (requiring a change in the controller chip in the ST, as well as a faster
< oscillator, etc.).
< 
< Charles Marslett
< chasm@killer.dallas.tx.us

Does this mean that a cartridge like the Spectre GCR could make the ST read
and write 1.44 Meg floppies if they were interfaced correctly?  Someone
want to build a cable and write a program? :-)
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