19 Jun
2001
19 Jun
'01
4:41 p.m.
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Don Maslin wrote:
They were an endless loop micro-cassette which did not
have to be
reversed in order to get back to the start. Hence the 'floppy'
designation. Tape=stringy, right?
The guy pushing them at their intro told me that "floppy" was because they
were intended as an alternative to using a floppy drive on TRS-80, and
they were "just as good as a floppy drive". (not true)
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