[Coco] High(Er) speed cassette loading.

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Wed Dec 30 15:59:05 EST 2020


On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:52 PM Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

>
> > I remember one product that used tapes - but it was more like the Coleco
> Adam tape drive.  It was designed to be higher speed from the start and did
> not use cassettes.  There may have been some devices, but I don't remember
> them.
>
> Stringy floppies? I never saw one, but they sounded interesting. Random
> access tape drives!
>
>
That was the Exatron stringy floppy.  I never saw one either.  They were
quite high-priced, as I recall, and I never heard of anyone who actually
had one.

Art


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