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Stringy Floppy A magnetic tape drive developed by Exatron, Sunnyvale, CA, for the Radio Shack TRS-80 personal computer. Introduced in 1979, the drive read the continuous-loop cartridge of 1/16" tape, called a "tape wafer," more than 10 times as fast as the TRS-80's data cassettes. A handful of games and applications were offered in the format, and Exatron sold several thousand Stringy Floppy drives before the floppy disk obsoleted them. The wafer's capacity was approximately a thousand bytes per foot.
stringy floppy [′striŋ·ē ′fläp·ē] (computer science) A peripheral storage device for microcomputers that uses a removable magnetic tape cartridge with a ¹⁄₁₆-inch-wide (1.5875-millimeter) loop of magnetic tape. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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