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Exatron Stringy Floppy, the Glossary

Index Exatron Stringy Floppy

An Exatron Stringy Floppy (cover removed) designed for use with the TRS-80 Model 1 The Exatron Stringy Floppy (or ESF) is a continuous-loop tape drive developed by Exatron.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 25 relations: Commodore 1540, Commodore 1541, Commodore 64, Compact Computer 40, Compute!'s Gazette, Exatron, InfoWorld, Level I BASIC, Li-Chen Wang, Magnetic-tape data storage, Manchester code, Prophet-5, RadioShack, Random access, Rotronics Wafadrive, S-100 bus, Sound on Sound, Tape drive, Texas Instruments, TI-99/4A, Tiny BASIC, TRS-80, VIC-20, West Coast Computer Faire, ZX Microdrive.

  2. Computer-related introductions in 1979
  3. Home computer peripherals
  4. TRS-80

Commodore 1540

The Commodore 1540 (also known as the VIC-1540) is the companion floppy disk drive for the VIC-20 home computer.

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Commodore 1541

The Commodore 1541 (also known as the CBM 1541 and VIC-1541) is a floppy disk drive which was made by Commodore International for the Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore's most popular home computer.

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Commodore 64

The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas).

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Compact Computer 40

The Compact Computer 40 or CC-40 is an early notebook-sized computer developed by Texas Instruments.

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Compute!'s Gazette

Compute!'s Gazette, stylized as COMPUTE!'s Gazette, was a computer magazine of the 1980s, directed at users of Commodore's 8-bit home computers.

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Exatron

Exatron manufactures a series of automated handling, testing, programming, and marking equipment for the packaged integrated circuit industry.

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InfoWorld

InfoWorld (IW) is an American information technology media business.

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Level I BASIC

Level I BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language that shipped with the first TRS-80, the TRS-80 Model I.

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Li-Chen Wang

Li-Chen Wang (born 1935) is an American computer engineer, best known for his Palo Alto Tiny BASIC for Intel 8080-based microcomputers.

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Magnetic-tape data storage

Magnetic-tape data storage is a system for storing digital information on magnetic tape using digital recording.

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Manchester code

In telecommunication and data storage, Manchester code (also known as phase encoding, or PE) is a line code in which the encoding of each data bit is either low then high, or high then low, for equal time.

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Prophet-5

The Prophet-5 is an analog synthesizer manufactured by the American company Sequential.

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RadioShack

RadioShack (formerly written as Radio Shack) is an American electronics retailer which was established in 1921 as an amateur radio mail-order business.

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Random access

Random access (more precisely and more generally called direct access) is the ability to access an arbitrary element of a sequence in equal time or any datum from a population of addressable elements roughly as easily and efficiently as any other, no matter how many elements may be in the set.

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Rotronics Wafadrive

Wafadrive packaging Rotronics Wafadrive shown with two Wafa tapes, a blank 64 kB and software release tape Front and back of a Rotronics 64 kB Wafa tape The Rotronics Wafadrive is a magnetic tape storage peripheral launched in late 1984 for the ZX Spectrum home computer. Exatron Stringy Floppy and Rotronics Wafadrive are computer storage devices and home computer peripherals.

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S-100 bus

The S-100 bus or Altair bus, IEEE 696-1983 (withdrawn), is an early computer bus designed in 1974 as a part of the Altair 8800.

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Sound on Sound

Sound on Sound is a monthly music technology magazine.

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Tape drive

A tape drive is a data storage device that reads and writes data on a magnetic tape.

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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

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TI-99/4A

The TI-99/4 and TI-99/4A are home computers released by Texas Instruments in 1979 and 1981, respectively. Exatron Stringy Floppy and TI-99/4A are computer-related introductions in 1979.

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Tiny BASIC

Tiny BASIC is a family of dialects of the BASIC programming language that can fit into 4 or fewer KBs of memory.

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TRS-80

The TRS-80 Micro Computer System (TRS-80, later renamed the Model I to distinguish it from successors) is a desktop microcomputer launched in 1977 and sold by Tandy Corporation through their Radio Shack stores.

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VIC-20

The VIC-20 (known as the VC-20 in Germany and the VIC-1001 in Japan) is an 8-bit home computer that was sold by Commodore Business Machines.

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West Coast Computer Faire

The West Coast Computer Faire was an annual computer industry conference and exposition most often associated with San Francisco, its first and most frequent venue.

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ZX Microdrive

ZX Microdrive unit The ZX Microdrive is a magnetic-tape data storage system launched in July 1983 by Sinclair Research for its ZX Spectrum home computer. Exatron Stringy Floppy and ZX Microdrive are computer storage devices and home computer peripherals.

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See also

Home computer peripherals

TRS-80

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exatron_Stringy_Floppy

Also known as Stringy Floppy, TI Waferdrive, Texas Instruments Waferdrive, Waferdrive.