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  XF521 pcuser <pcuser4@yahoo.com> - 2013-10-24 08:37 -0700
    Re: XF521 video61%tcq.net@gtempaccount.com - 2013-10-26 08:04 -0700
    Re: XF521 "Michael Current" <michael@mcurrent.name> - 2013-10-26 14:40 -0500

#987 — XF521

Atari has made the XF521 disk drive as 1050 compatible however the disk drive was not released yet when Atari 65XE/130XE came out but XF521 has been cancelled. Why's that? 

I am wondering if XF disk drive mod can be made, 1050 board and mechanism removed from XL style box and put into XE style. XF521 looks a light beige case matching the color scheme of the Atari XE. Similar as Commodore 1541C. Where can I find the XE disk drive mod? 

- JT

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#988

On Thursday, October 24, 2013 10:37:14 AM UTC-5, pcuser wrote:
> Atari has made the XF521 disk drive as 1050 compatible however the disk drive was not released yet when Atari 65XE/130XE came out but XF521 has been cancelled. Why's that? 
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> I am wondering if XF disk drive mod can be made, 1050 board and mechanism removed from XL style box and put into XE style. XF521 looks a light beige case matching the color scheme of the Atari XE. Similar as Commodore 1541C. Where can I find the XE disk drive mod? 
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> - JT

 if you are speaking of the 3.5, 720k drive, i know the person who talked atari into dumping it, and installing a 5.25, 360k mech instead, what a idiot.
 the 1050 will not do dd without a mod. you should look for a xf-551, it matches the xe's color wise, and was supposed to be the 3.5, 720k drive. a 3.5, 720k mech can be installed thru a mod.

lance
www.atarisales.com

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#989

On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:37:14 -0500, pcuser <pcuser4@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Atari has made the XF521 disk drive as 1050 compatible however the disk  
> drive was not released yet when Atari 65XE/130XE came out but XF521 has  
> been cancelled. Why's that?

I would presume because they had plenty of 1050 units stockpiled already.

Either that or they decided it was less expensive to manufacture more 1050  
drives than to manufacture the XF521.

Either way it got to be a problem because the supply of 1050 drives dried  
up well before the XF551 finally came out.  This was particularly an issue  
fall 1987 when Atari was launching the XE game system and touting its  
ability to play all the existing 400/800/XL/XE disk games, when Atari  
didn't actually have any disk drives available to sell.

> I am wondering if XF disk drive mod can be made, 1050 board and  
> mechanism removed from XL style box and put into XE style. XF521 looks a  
> light beige case matching the color scheme of the Atari XE. Similar as  
> Commodore 1541C. Where can I find the XE disk drive mod?

For the XE style case would you use the case of an XF551?

I don't think I've ever heard of someone moving the entire innards of a  
1050 into an XF551 case.

It seems like the only potential issue would be whether it would  
physically fit.  Or how much modification you'd have to do to the case to  
make it fit.

-- 
Michael Current  ~  michael@mcurrent.name  ~  http://mcurrent.name/

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