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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!darekm
- From: darekm@microsoft.com (Darek Mihocka)
- Subject: Re: 21 meg floptical to MEGA ST4 -- HOW?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.223707.18540@microsoft.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 22:37:07 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <17NOV92.13220296@cc4.crl.aecl.ca> <1992Nov18.002054.12047@bsu-ucs>
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- In article <1992Nov18.002054.12047@bsu-ucs> 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
- >I'm still curious about this fl-optical thingy...
- >
- >Take my platform and explain what I would need in order to use one.
- >
- >Atari Mega ST4 DS Internal drive only -- NO HARD DRIVE. :(
- >Old Color Mon. (irrelevant)
- >standard everything-else....
- >
- >And how much dollars to get to functional use?
-
- Call Purple Mountain Computers at 206-747-1519 (the people who also
- carry Gemulator). The floptical package is about $400 I think.
-
- What you get is the ICD LYNX (no not the game machine). It's a connector
- that plugs into your ST's DMA port to hook up SCSI devices such as the
- floptical drive. As far as your ST is concerned, the floptical is just
- another hard disk. You even get the ICD hard disk software with it.
-
- You get 21 meg of storage on each diskette, and the drive does read and write
- 720K and 1.4 meg floppies as well, so the floptical does double as a
- 1.4 meg drive upgrade. The diskettes are about $20 each.
-
- - Darek
-
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