Exatron Stringy Floppy drives?

From: Gene Buckle <geneb_at_deltasoft.com>
Date: Wed Jun 20 09:31:05 2001

> What's the story with these things? They're small black and silver, and the
> cassettes are tiny little clear things that look like backup tapes, or
> something like that.
>
> What do you do with them? What system are they for?
>

Ernest, they're an alternative to a floppy drive for TRS-80 Model I
computers. IIRC, they plugged into the card edge connector at the upper
left corner of the CPU. I don't know if they could plug into the
Expansion Interface, but I see no reason why not. The cartridges are a
continuously(sp) streaming media. it's one loop of tape. Each one would
hold (I _think_) 90KB of data each.

I don't know how popular they are - I've only seen one in my life and that
was back in 1987 or so.

g.
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