I miss having the Atari ST 1040FM computer that I had back when I was
in middle school. It was the reason I went on BBSes: to download
games. My family had a 386 or 486 computer (I think it was the
later), and a modem (I forget the baud rate) that I would call up
into a local computer shop's, that had both Atari and IBM-compatabile hardware, BBS and just download a game or two.

Fwoar, you had a computer? I had to write programmes on bits of paper... I didn't see a computer until the middle of high school. They had microbes and Apple II's.... thinking about it, the microbes had networking of some kind and ran cp/m, didn't last a full year though, someone ran off with the "hub" ,"master" network controller without which the rest was useless.

I started collecting A2 software, and the rest as they say... is history.

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Well, some people had problems and some people didn't seem to. I know

Anyone not using a GCR format floppy should in theory be able to swap so long as the density is supported. Its just a matter of telling the mechanism what its reading.

The A2 floppy is both smart and dumb at the same time. The drive itself is as smart as a brick, all the driving is done at the controller and dos level. That
means with the right software driving you you *might* be able to read some strange floppies. IT might also depend on the version of UCSD thats driving it. Or those that were able to swap had a non-apple drive attached, they used to be reasonably common once. 1.2Mb drives driven to 800k for instance.

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* Origin: <Shoot'n the breeze on The Lower Planes> (21:3/105)