> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctech-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
> Behalf Of Robert Borsuk
> Sent: 04 March 2003 19:43
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: King of the string has Stringy floppy day
>
> Hi All,
> Thanks to Glen I now have info on my A&J Microdrive. On another
> note, I have just received in today a Stringy floppy for the Commodore
> 64. This unit is brand new and has a brand new tape. It connects up
> to the cassette port. Though I won't have time to test the units (the
> wife calls it play) until thursday, at which time I will declare it
> "Stringy Floppy day".
> Anyway, anyone have experience with a stringy floppy for a
> commodore? It's called a "Quick Data Drive".
I'm wondering if anyone actually *bought* these QDDs, every one I see
including my own are brand new and have a brand new system tape; people try
and sell 'em on epay as 'wow' etc :) Mine's badged as 'Entrepo' and I'm
pretty sure it's a single drive version of the Rotronics 'Wafadrive' that
was available for the Speccy and C64. That one was built round a BSR tape
mechanism (the same people that made vinyl turntables in the 70s). I don't
think it can be classed as a stringy floppy though, since that accolade used
to belong to (in the UK anyway) a device called the 'Phloopy' which was a
plastic case similar to, but bigger than, the Sinclair Microdrive but
instead of a neverending reel of tape it just had the tape 'loose' inside
the cart.....
cheers
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adrian/witchy
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Received on Wed Mar 05 2003 - 06:05:13 GMT