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From: ACSCHW@SEMASSU.BITNET (Let That Be Your Last Battlefield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: 3 1/2" disk with 400/800/800xl
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Date: 13 Feb 90 21:33:00 GMT
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Hello,

  Has anyone ever hooked up a 3 1/2" drive (720K or other) to an Atari 8 bit ?

  I would really like to do this to save space and use more reliable disks.

  Someone told me you can hook up the old Percom DSDD drive to a 3 1/2" unit
  and it would work (although, they had not done it to prove that...)

  Would that work, how are the old percom units as DSDD 5 1/2" drives ?  Are
  they more reliable (I haven't had too many reliablity probs, but...)

  I am very interested in doing this, but would like someone to tell me how
  to do it (please don't tell me to buy a XF551 drive...I can't justify the
  expendature...unless you got one for sale cheap...)

  Thanks again,

    -- Curt

Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.  Senior in CIS @ Southeastern Massachusetts University
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