[Coco] High(Er) speed cassette loading.

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Wed Dec 30 16:04:45 EST 2020


On Dec 30, 2020, at 2:59 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Oh wow!

https://youtu.be/EBfNy021K2Q

It appeared to be a loop tape, like a radio station cart (or 8-track, I guess). Not at all what I expected. And of course there is a demo on YouTube.

Didn’t the Colecovision Adam computer use something like this? Or maybe just a tape deck you could control FF RW REC PLAY?



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