GS disks an' that.

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_look.ca>
Date: Sat Dec 16 13:08:32 2000

> Adrian Graham skrev:
>
> >> From: "Iggy Drougge" <optimus_at_canit.se>
> >> Subject: RE: First personal computer nostalgia
> >>
> >> I'm sorry, but I feel it's nitpicking time...
> >> I've never heard of an Atari 1050ST before, nor of a 1 MB
> >> hard drive fitted to
> >> an ST. OTOH, there is the Atari 1040ST, which had 1 MB of RAM.
>
> >And you *could* get HDs for them too; can't remember their product
> >designation OTTOMH but a swift look at the Atari Historical Society
> >should tell you. Maybe it was a Falcon!
>
> You certainly could, and I've never claimed otherwise. The Atari
> designation should be SH-**, IIRC. I've never heard of Atari or any
> other hardware producer supplying a 1MB HD for the ST, though. It
> seems really pointless, considering that it would be the same size as
> the built-in disk drive.
>
> --
> En ligne avec Thor 2.6.
>
> The most useful program will be continually improved until it is
> useless.
>
 Altho there are modifications to use a HD floppy, and you could
fiddle with track and sector sizes to expand capacity like many of
the disk-zines did, the stock FDD was a double density 3 1/2.

ciao larry


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