18 Mar
1998
18 Mar
'98
5:56 p.m.
andrew davie was
:Talking about disks for the Mattel Aquarius...
yep, they're quick disks. and they probably belong in the same bucket as
sinclair's microdrive and phi mag's floopy tape (anyone else remember
this one?) - nice tries that just couldn't keep up, either in cost,
capacity or genericity.
if only our ql's microdrives still worked... they're a lovely little
storage mechanism to look at.
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Communa (together) we remember... we'll see you falling
you know soft spoken changes nothing to sing within her...
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6:20 p.m.
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 23:56:43 GMT
From: lisard(a)zetnet.co.uk
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Hitachi 2.8" (was Preserving old floppies, fixed disks...)
yep, they're quick disks. and they probably belong in the same bucket as
sinclair's microdrive and phi mag's floopy tape (anyone else remember
this one?) - nice tries that just couldn't keep up, either in cost,
capacity or genericity.
Re: phi mag's floppy tape: Didn't this resemble that old
TRS-80 hack the 'stringy floppy'? I used to have one of those when I
was a kid (the TRS-80 Stringy Floppy before I could afford a real 5
1/4" drive), and still remember it fondly. It was a pretty cool
little unit.
For those who don't remember, it was a high speed tape drive
which used closed loop tape cartridges similar in concept to 8 track
tapes, though much smaller. Each tape could store up to 50k as I
remember, with load times under a minute. This was _impressive_ if
you were used to cassette tapes! BTW: anyone remember who the
manufacturer of the Stringy Floppy was?
--jmg
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19 Mar
19 Mar
12:38 a.m.
J. Maynard Gelinas wrote:
Re: phi mag's floppy tape: Didn't this resemble that old
TRS-80 hack the 'stringy floppy'? I used to have one of those when I
was a kid (the TRS-80 Stringy Floppy before I could afford a real 5
1/4" drive), and still remember it fondly. It was a pretty cool
little unit.
For those who don't remember, it was a high speed tape drive
which used closed loop tape cartridges similar in concept to 8 track
tapes, though much smaller. Each tape could store up to 50k as I
remember, with load times under a minute. This was _impressive_ if
you were used to cassette tapes! BTW: anyone remember who the
manufacturer of the Stringy Floppy was?
Actually, I seem to recall that the Exatron Stringy Floppy was also
available for Apple and Commodore products, but there's a chance that
I'm remembering the adverts wrong.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
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