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Atari 1050 — Wikipedia (en)

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  title = {Atari 1050 — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_1050},
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The Atari 1050 is a floppy disk drive for Atari 8-bit computers released in June 1983. It is compatible with the 90 kB single-density mode of the original Atari 810 it replaced, and added a new "enhanced" or "dual density" mode that allows 130 kB on a disk. Based on a half-height Tandon mechanism, it is smaller than the 810 and matches the styling of 1200XL, 600XL, and 800XL machines. By the time it was available, a variety of third party drives had been introduced for the Atari 8-bit computers, many of which were faster and offered true double-density support for 180 kB. The lack of double-density support on the 1050 was a mystery to onlookers at the time, as the hardware had full support for this format. The launch was further marred by releasing it with the older Atari DOS 2.0S, S for "single", which does not support the 130 kB capacity. Atari eventually replaced 2.0 with DOS 3.0 which supported the enhanced density mode. However, it also uses an entirely new format that is incompatible with earlier disks. This led to further criticism and the widespread use of 3rd party DOSes. The release of DOS 2.5 in 1985 finally addressed these issues. The 1050 was launched directly into the rise of the Commodore 64 and the videogame crash of 1983 when sales of the 8-bit line plummeted. When Jack Tramiel purchased Atari in 1984 there were warehouses filled with unsold 1050s, which delayed production of a replacement. It was not until 1987 that the Atari XF551 was introduced, offering both double-density and double-sided capabilities and a double-speed transfer mode.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Atari 1050» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_1050
Wikidata Q109973299: «external floppy drive» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109973299
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_1050?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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