On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Win Heagy wrote:
One other item I recently acquired that I thought
I'd ask about.
Ever hear of the Exatron Stringy Floppy mass storage system? The
one I have was apparently used with a TRS-80 model 1. But it had
a brochure that said it was available for S-100 and 6800 systems.
It is a minature tape system...the tapes look like very small
casette tapes. The tapes/waffers apparently come in different
sizes with a 5 foot length holding about 4k. Anyone ever use one?
Seems pretty interesting.
I have a couple of the tapes but don't have the drive. This was another
ill-conceived mass storage system. If I'm not mistaken they were
endless-loop? Doug Coward (dcoward(a)pressstart.com) knows more about
these than I do.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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