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    17-Mar-90 16:52:48
Sb: #94423-AMAX
Fm: Betty Clay/SYSOP 76702,337
To: Mike Schiller 76416,3065
Mike, I don't know. I never tried to change the speed on a drive, but I would not be willing to say flatly that it cannot be done on any drive. I suspect that the Mac-style drives have those speed changes built in pretty solid, though. You know, I have lots of the old Commodore IEEE drives – 8050 drives that stored .5M on one side of a 5 1/4" floppy, and 1001 drives that stores over 1M on both sides of same. I've wished that there were a way to use THOSE on the AMiga, but they were smart drives with all of the software built into the drive itself, and if there is a way to use them, I have not heard of it. We have quite a few of those, too – three 8050 drives and two of the 1001's, all just sitting idle these days. ……Betty