Re: Current Status of ST Emulation Packages

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From: Gerard Lachac
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1987 21:54

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In article <1502@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (braner) writes:
>Question: will Atari convert the STs to a 1.4-Megabyte disk format compatible
>with the new IBM PS/2 machines?
>
>- Moshe Braner

I doubt it.
If I'm not mistaken, aren't the drives on the PS/2 series using some kind of
propriatory drive/controller combo that makes them ultra expensive?? (and also
not compatible with the drives in the current ST's)

-- 
		"Truth is false and logic lost..."
					- Neil Peart
	(who at the time didn't realize he was talking about RU)
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From: lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac)
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Subject: Re: Current Status of ST Emulation Packages
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