19 Nov
1998
19 Nov
'98
11:02 a.m.
David wrote:
he also said he used something called a stringy floppy
with it which used a
loop of string/wire to save data with not quite the speed of floppies but
certainly faster than cassette. has anyone seen these or can explain how
they work? he said there were carts that were put into the drive so it seems
to be a removeable media device?
It's a tiny endless loop tape cartridge. IMS, they were made by Exatron.
I have a Structured Design SD20 PAL programmer that take these, so if you're
willing to sell a spare tape cartridge, I'd be much obliged.
The SD20 has PALASM software (and a simple text editor) built in, so you can
simply hook up a dumb terminal and do PAL development with no "computer".
It lets you save your source code on tape.
Cheers,
Eric