On 2017-05-15 09:22:44 +0000, Ian McCall  said:

> On 2017-05-11 04:52:13 +0000, rbernardo{at}iglou.com said:
>
>> ...To read about what they say about the Datasette, see
>>
>>
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/g3075/the-forgotten-media-of-yesteryear/?src=nl&mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&date=050917

Very

few
>>
> people in Europe had the disk drive - was seen as an expensive luxury.
> 'Cousin of the Microdrive'?! It really wasn't, it was a straight
> forward load-from-tape system that every other 8 bit had as well.
> Probably closest to the BBC's handling of tape drives, which could
> autorewind (and had the life saving "load by block" feature
which meant
> if the load was corrupt, you just had to rewind past the first
> corrupted block and try again.).
>
> Microdrive was very different and almost -no-one- had that.

Have just noticed they put in the ST-506 too. Forgotten?! That's just a
hard drive. It was the first model I bought, and I connected it up to
an Atari ST in a home-built enclosure with separately-bought ASCI (yep,
not SCSI) controller and a PSU for it.


Cheers,
Ian

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