19 Jun
2001
19 Jun
'01
3:51 p.m.
Thanks for the info. I just found some information on the web to. I think
that these are the ones for the TRS80.
e.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Fred Cisin
(XenoSoft)
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 8:31 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Exatron Stringy Floppy drives?
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Ernest wrote:
What's the story with these things? They're
small black and silver, and
the
cassettes are tiny little clear things that look like
backup tapes, or
something like that.
What do you do with them? What system are they for?
I believe that they were first introduced at the third West Coast Computer
Faire (the time they held it in LA).
They were marketed as a storage peripheral for several different
computers, but I think that the only one that they came even close to
catching on with was TRS-80, since it was cheaper than buying an expansion
interface and a floppy drive.
They were somewhat more reliable than the TRS-80 cassette port (which was
an almost Write-Only medium)
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