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 Firstly on the subject of Floppies. I have access to three 'IBM' compats
 with 3.5 Inch floppies. An AMSTRAD portable, an IBM PS/2 Model 70 and an
 Apricot Zen-i. Now the lattter two have 1.44 Meg disks in. They often have
 problems reading disk formatted on the Amstrad, (They too think they are 1.4
 meg format.) so I suspect there may be a bug in DOS3.3 (which what all the
 machines are using). Also IBM released a 'patch' for the ROM BIOS in some
 PS/2 machines so if that is missing it might cause the problems. However
 disks formatted on my STE seem to work fine in the Amstrad and the 'real'
 IBM, but I have not done any 'extensive' tests.
 
 On the subject of the STe one recent add I saw said they only had STe's.
 However we don't have FCC testing in the U.K. so I suspect thats the delay
 in the USA.
 
 I think the piracy issue is a bit emotive. I guess one problem is that most
 PC's are used as part of some business activity. So they have a software
 budget, so if you write a PC package you stand a good chance of selling
 at least a few copies, so if some get pirated you don't notice much. (assuming
 of course its not a game). In fact most people I know with PC's have several
 pirate copies of very expensive packages that they 'copied' from their
 employers machine. With ST'S I guess the business market isn't there. So
 the piracy looks much worse. In fact I know several teen-agers with ST's and
 in general if they like a game they go out and buy a copy. In general they
 seem to have less pirated s/w than most 'personal' PC users.
 
 
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P.S. I suppose I ougft to say the above is my personal opinion.
PPS. Ken, Any chance of getting the TOS1.6 Med Res Boot fix posted here or
do I have to mail my disk to ATARI for a fix. (Nope the dealer I bought from
dosn't have it in his local shop, his Tech Support center is moving house so
I can't ask them until next week).