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From: ain1496e@merrimack.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Anyone tried XF551 with 80-track drive?
Message-ID: <18508.25d461de@merrimack.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 90 18:47:58 GMT
References: <8356@c3pe.UUCP>
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Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA
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In article <8356@c3pe.UUCP>, charles@c3pe.UUCP (Charles Green) writes:
> I'd like to add a 720Kb floppy drive to my Atari 8-bit system.  The best way
> I can see to do this would be to buy the XF551 double-sided drive, and the
> rumored conversion kit for 3.5" microdiskettes.  (I'd prefer something
> short of a box on the XL's parallel interface, unless that solution is
> cheaper somehow.)
>   
  I know the 3.5kit exists, It is sold by Innovative Concepts
  in an antic or analog a while back there was a review of it. The person
  who wrote the artice (i think it was matt ratcliff) use the kit, and I think
  it got a favorable review.