"Softstrip" (Was: Kilobaud Magazine

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sat Nov 7 14:50:11 1998

< > As with all the others, it hung around for a year or so and then folde
< > People just didn't like the concept I suppose, or maybe it just wasn'
< > accurate enough (I don't know since I never actually used it).

Neither, it was an attempt to distribute software. With floppies
becomming more common and genrally dropping in price the floppy became
the preferred mode. At the same time BBS systems were becomming common
place enough to download software as well. In the larger view of
technology it was a attempt to solve a problem that other solutions
would displace.

Other interum solutions included those thin records distributed by
Interface Age that used the KC cassette interface standard.


Allison
Received on Sat Nov 07 1998 - 14:50:11 GMT