On 1998-03-18 classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu said to lisard_at_zetnet.co.uk
:> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 23:56:43 GMT
:> 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.
ditto the sinclair microdrives, which were about the size of an old 50p
piece (oh, erm... about one and a half times a quarter?) and stored 100k
in a ql. they were 2 track, 1/16" tapes - does anyone know the magnetic
format in which they stored data? was one track datat and one track
clock, or...? they were *sooo* cute :> it's just a shame they were also
rather unreliable. most qls have disk drives and ours is soon to acquire
one.
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Received on Thu Mar 19 1998 - 15:20:37 GMT