Eight Disk Drives?

[Tempest]

Looking over my old 810/1050 documentation I noticed that they have the ability to daisy chain 8 drives together.

 

My questions is even if you could have afforded to do that back then (and that would have cost ALOT of money), what on earth would you need 8 different drives hooked up to your Atari at once? Was there any use for so many drives?

 

 

Tempest

[TXG/MNX]

Looking over my old 810/1050 documentation I noticed that they have the ability to daisy chain 8 drives together.

 

My questions is even if you could have afforded to do that back then (and that would have cost ALOT of money), what on earth would you need 8 different drives hooked up to your Atari at once?  Was there any use for so many drives?

 

Tempest

 

Yes there was a need for it. I have so many different upgraded drives and sometimes it was usefull to have more then 4 drives. There is even software like harddisk backup pro for the blackbox that supports 8 drives at 1 time to backup too

[Goochman]

Alternate Reality supported lots of drives (The DUngeon version)

 

Also,

BBS operators used as many as possible - The most I had in the day was 3 - 810 and 2x1050's.

[Bryan]

Back in the 80's I knew a guy who ran a local 8-bit BBS, and he had Atari drives stacked all over the place (this was before there was any practical way to use hard drives).

 

-Bry

[Albert]

I had four disk drives hooked up for my BBS: two US Doublered 1050s and two sleek, black Indus GT drives. Althogh the BBS did also have two 20GB hard drives, so the floppies didn't get a whole lot of use once I got the MIO board and the hard drives.

 

I think Alternate Reality could use at least four drives (!).

 

..Al