20 Jun
2001
20 Jun
'01
2:31 a.m.
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?
Ernest, they're an alternative to a floppy drive for TRS-80 Model I
computers. IIRC, they plugged into the card edge connector at the upper
left corner of the CPU. I don't know if they could plug into the
Expansion Interface, but I see no reason why not. The cartridges are a
continuously(sp) streaming media. it's one loop of tape. Each one would
hold (I _think_) 90KB of data each.
I don't know how popular they are - I've only seen one in my life and that
was back in 1987 or so.
g.