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From: brianp@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 3-1/4 drive prices.
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Date: 29 Mar 89 10:07:30 GMT
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In article <1227@ns.network.com> logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan) writes:
->I walked into our local atari store saturday looking to buy a double sided
->3-1/4 inch drive for my 520 ST (I still have the original single sided
->drive that came with it in 1986.)  When I saw the price was $300.00 I turned
...
->Does any third party hardware place sell double sided floppy drives (it is 
...

What is involved in putting a generic floppy drive onto an ST?
There are 3.5" drives listed for cheap in a PC ad in
Bay Area Computer Currents magazine.  They are TEAC 720k for $79,
TEAC 1.44M for $89, and SONY 1.44M for $99.  Also, 'universal floppy'
controller (for 1.44, 1.2, 720, 360) for $45.
Would one of these things need box, power supply, and cable?
And knowledge of which floppy-drive outputs go to the Atari interface?

Also, what's the deal with a 1.44M floppy drive?  Looks like it crams
stuff on at double density.  Would those be compatible with regular
disk formats, maybe by using some special mode to read 720k disks
instead of 1.44M disks?

Thanks!
	Brian Peterson, ...!ucbvax!ucbernie!brianp (brianp@ernie.berkeley.edu)