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- From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
- Subject: Re: Why no floppy port on the Falcon??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.163437.6055@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <18r8tgINN103@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:34:37 GMT
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- In article 18r8tgINN103@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu, aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys) writes:
- >
- >I'm not sure how Spectre GCR works. Why is the external drive needed?
- >Can't it use the internal drive?
-
- To use the GCR, a drive cable runs from the Spectre cartridge to the external drive
- port on your ST. If you have an external drive as well, it plugs into the GCR cart.
- These are necessary so the Atari drives can read/write the Mac 800K format. Using
- the 1.4Mb drives, such additional h/w would not be necessary, only a s/w patch.
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- >Also, can't Dave write some kind of fix for it?
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- I'm sure he could, but is it worth his while?
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- >I wonder if Atari contacted Dave Small about the external drive port...
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- I doubt it. Why would they?
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- >They seem to be putting him out of business... First is was the
- >Mega ST expansion port, then there is the Falcon with the increased
- >speed that a lot of people will no doubt purchase instead of his SST,
- >and now there is no floppy port for his Spectre...
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- Gadgets by Small is not about to go out of business, unless and until Dave Small
- decides to do something else. The Spectre GCR, MegaTalk, and SST all still seem
- to be selling very well, or at least as fast as they can make them!
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- ___________________________ John "HUTCH" Hutchinson _________________________
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