18 Feb
1998
18 Feb
'98
10:11 p.m.
I'm about to pick up an ATARI with 5 1/4" 1050 floppt drive,
but it will lack an OS and software. Can I use a standard DD 5 1/4"
drive (say an old shugart with the BIOS set to 360K) and use dd to
write an ATARI boot image file to this drive? I don't see why not,
but I'm not certain if the ATARI drives used some pecular hardware,
like the old mac 400k/800k variable speed drive incompatabilities.
If so, does anyone have a boot/OS image for this thing? And
where do I find old DD floppies these days?
Thanks!
J. Maynard Gelinas