Rover I portable: Does it exist? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Apr 2000

In a message dated 4/19/00 7:03:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
netsurfer_x1(a)hotmail.com writes:

...
  I recently read about an intresting old portable
(luggable?) called the 
  Rover I. This is an intresting machine because instead of using floppy 
  drives like most portables, it uses wafertape drives (now *there's* a 
  storage system that never really took off, but I have heard that they were 
  reasonably popular on TRaSh-80's.) 
wafertape - you mean stringy floppy? i have an exatron stringy floppy drive 
with my trs80 model 1. no tapes though. anyone have any?  a guy i worked with 
has a stringy floppy drive with his model 1 and he said it was much better 
than cassette tape. i think it was random access type device too. i think he 
said you could store ~100k per wafertape. really looks like fishing line in a 
little tape case. 

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