David wrote: 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

At 07:36 PM 11/19/98 EST, you wrote: data Ok, consider if you will a tape cartridge loaded like a 8-track audio tape cartridge (set the 'wayback' machine, Sherman), but in a form factor of about 1.5 x 3 x .2 inches and you've got it. The "Exatron Stringy Floppy" was a tape loop cartridge that had a basic 'structured' file system on it so (with the proper software) it could be treated similar to a disk device, altho serial in nature. Don't remember the capacity right off, but it was not a lot. Had a friend who always thought that these were the greatest thing since sliced bread. They were around for less than a year as I recall however... Hope there are at least a few cartridges with it, cause you will (never say never) have a REAL interesting time finding more... -jim --- jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw Computer Garage Fax - (503) 646-0174