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From: hans
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1986 18:29
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I sent the following to info-68k-requests@ucbvax.berkeley.edu, but it seems to 
have gotten lost:

Newsgroups: mod.computers.68k
Subject: Re: Atari 1040ST Question
References: <8605170514.AA27537@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

In article <8605170514.AA27537@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> HELLER@umass-cs.CSNET (Stride 440 User) writes:
>
>	I am thinking of get an Atari 1040ST as a second computer for
>use "at the office". I already have a Stride 440 at home running
>CP/M-68K.  The Stride has two 5.25" DSDD 96TPI floppy drives.  I have
>heard that the Atari also runs CP/M-68K underneath a layer or two of
>graphics/window hackery.  The Atari has a built in 3.5" floppy drive
>and a port for a second floppy drive.  My question is: can I put a
>5.25" DSDD 96TPI floppy drive on the Atari as a second drive?  If
>this is posible it would make it posible to easily move files between
>the Stride (at home) and the Atari (at work).  (The Atari at work
>would have a direct serial connection to the VAXen I use at work,
>thus I can use Kermit to move files between the Atari and the VAXen.)
>
>				Robert Heller


The November, 1985 issue of ANTIC magazine (Vol 4, No. 7) has an article
on how to do that.
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Subject: Lost submission.
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