Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cadovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrba!cadovax!keithd From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: Disk Drive needed Message-ID: <240@cadovax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 17:29:04 EDT Article-I.D.: cadovax.240 Posted: Thu Oct 18 17:29:04 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 14:18:28 EDT References: <1463@pur-phy.UUCP> Organization: Contel Cado, Torrance, CA Lines: 32 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