Re: Adding A Floppy Drive

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From: Stephen Jacobs
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 1989 07:02

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In article <9148@mhuxu.UUCP>, cbz@mhuxu.UUCP (Craig B. Ziemer) writes:
> Does anyone have any experience using the ST/PC Drive Cable from E. Arthur
> Brown Co.?  This cable supposedly allows you to hook up any IBM compatible
> 3.5" or 5.25" floppy drive to the ST.  Is this something that I can easily
> make myself?  Can I run the second drive off of my existing power supply
> somehow?  Any comments appreciated.

Very much in the same vein: I just got a NEC Multispeed MS-DOS laptop (used--
mostly for use as a second terminal to do debugging on the ST).  It has a funny
connector on the back, and there is a claim that it can pretend to be 
external floppy drives on a desktop MS-DOS machine.  Can the same thing be
arranged with an ST?  Believe me, it would be the steal of the century if that
portable could pretend to be a pair of double sided drives for my ST.

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From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Adding A Floppy Drive
Summary: What about laptops as drives?
Message-ID: <7866@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 4 Mar 89 07:02:59 GMT
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