Disk Drive needed

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2 total messages Started by Hal Chambers Mon, 15 Oct 1984 18:10

#402

Author: Hal Chambers
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 1984 18:10

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   I just bough an 800XL for my daughter and now need a disk drive.
Does anybody have any recomendations?
I'd like all the capacity I can get, of course.
Does anyone make a disk system which uses the expansion bus?
A previous article refered to "closeout" prices on the 1050 drive;
is it being replaced by a new model??

Hal Chambers
(...!pur-ee!pur-phy!hal)

Re: Disk Drive needed

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Author: Keith Doyle
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 1984 21:29

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I recommend the INDUS G.T.  Several friends of mine have them and
they come HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.  I know only one person who has a RANA
and when I was over at his house, it started acting strange.  He says
he's never had any problems until then though.  (acting strange means=
Lots of disk errors in this case).  I use and ATR-8000 with an NEC
half height double-sided double density (IBM compat.) drive in addition to my
original Atari 810.  By the way the ATR-8000 supports up to 4 drives
and I also have 2 8" Sugarts (sp?) that I periodically hook up
( when I'm not using them with my old standby- an IMSAI )

The low end ( non-CP/M ) ATR-8000 is priced right around $300, and
you shouldn't have to pay more than about $170 for a disk drive
(that's how much mine was, others were cheaper ) and a drive
cabinet with power supply is $50-$90.

If this method is either a)too expensive, or b) assumes too much 
knowledge about how to put the hardware together, then I would 
as I said, recommend the INDUS.


By the way, the CP/M version of the ATR-8000 is about $450 (? price has
been dropping) and for and extra $599 (? again) you can get the Co-Power 88,
which will run IBM compatible software and comes with 128k.  The ATR-8000
is made by SWP Inc.  (I forget what it stands for, just see any ANALOG or
ANTIC magazine )


Keith Doyle
{ucbvax,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd

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