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stringy floppy

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Stringy Floppy

A tape drive developed by Exatron, Sunnyvale, CA, for the Radio Shack TRS-80 personal computer that used a continuous loop cartridge of 1/16" tape. It was faster than the audio cassettes used for data storage on the first TRS-80s, and the company sold several thousand of these "tape wafers." However, soon after, the floppy disk became the norm.


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.


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