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From: ajy2208%ritcv@cs.rit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: 80-track floppy drives on Atari?
Keywords: controller 96tpi DSDD enhancement
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Date: 18 Apr 89 12:27:40 GMT
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Reply-To: ajy2208.ritcv.rit.edu (Albert Yarusso)
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ICD's Multi-IO board that attaches to the parallel bus on the XL and XE
computers does NOT allow floppy drives to be connected.  Just Modems,
Hard Drives, and Printers.. :)  However, the ATR8000 allows just about
any type of floppy drive to be connected (even 3.5" drives I imagine).
While most (all?) DOSs will work with the ATR, only a few DOSs (like
SpartaDOS and MYDos) will allow you to format disks in a format different
than what you'd normally see.  My roommate had one, and he had 2 DD/DS
and 2 DD/SD IBM drives hooked up to it.  The ATR8000 also has a centronics
printer interface and a serial interface (for the modem).  AND it has CP/M
capability (oooooooooooooooo).

I may be wrong (disclaimer!) but I don't think there are any 1050
enhancements that allow you to connect external drives..
There was a drive that allowed you to connect more drives, but the name
escapes me (TRAK?  Percom?  Rana?  Naww, definitely not Rana, those
drives were a piece of junk!)..

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