Exatron Stringy Floppy drives?

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Jun 19 23:48:09 2001

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com wrote:
> I have one for one of the 2 trs80 model 1 i have. It's a small box that plugs
> into the computer. It uses small carts that looks kinda like cassette tapes.
> the media actually looks like thin fishing line. I don't have any of the
> carts though. i spoke with a guy that used one and said it was random acess
> device and was slow, although much faster than cassette tapes.

It is intrinsically sequential, albeit looped sequential, and impossible
for it to be a random access device, although a file system COULD provide
a SLOW emulation of random access through methods such as indexed
sequential.

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Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Tue Jun 19 2001 - 23:48:09 BST

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