25 Apr
2012
25 Apr
'12
1:24 p.m.
On 24 April 2012 15:58, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 24 Apr 2012 at 9:00, Jules Richardson wrote:
Oh my yes, those things! I remember those. I think we reviewed one in
PC Pro. My colleague Dick Pountain - an experienced "elder statesman"
of IT - thought it sounded great and bought one.
I do not believe he stayed delighted for all that long, but at first,
he thought it was great. He could carry around a gig in his pocket,
which in 1995 or so was pretty impressive - a big modern hard disk
then was around a gig. The best one, which most of our review machines
had, was the Quantum Fireball 1200.
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~90KB of storage and prone to tape stretch? ;-)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Microdrive)
Reminds me of the Datasonix Pereos that attempted to get 1GB on a
Sony NT microcassette. ?I wonder if any backups have survived?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NT_%28cassette%29
http://homepage3.nifty.com/kenk/imx/ndc-04.jpg 