Exatron Stringy Floppy drives?

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Jun 19 23:41:12 2001

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Don Maslin wrote:
> They were an endless loop micro-cassette which did not have to be
> reversed in order to get back to the start. Hence the 'floppy'
> designation. Tape=stringy, right?

The guy pushing them at their intro told me that "floppy" was because they
were intended as an alternative to using a floppy drive on TRS-80, and
they were "just as good as a floppy drive". (not true)

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Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Tue Jun 19 2001 - 23:41:12 BST

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