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“This is a very tiny disk drive using two quarter-inch diskettes..."
"...Ads from 1982 had described the product as a “a single interchangeable microfloppy”. But by the end of the year, that text was changed to read “a single interchangeable storage medium”. The release window went from “later this year [1982]” to “the early part of 1983”.
Τα αποτελέσματα:By now it was being rumoured that the Microdrive was not based on rotating disk technology, as the early advertisingʼs reference to a “microfloppy” had implied. Indeed, most attendees left the Spectrum launch assuming from what theyʼd heard that the Microdrive used some kind of diskette. Instead, it would use a “high speed tape loop”...
While many reviewers were generally positive about the Microdrive - the speed was the main issue; it wasnʼt really quick enough to be a floppy killer - only regular usage would reveal the designʼs weak spots.
While the drives were, at £49.95 a throw, considered cheap, replacement cartridges, which cost £4.95 each, were not. Thatʼs about three times the price of a 5.25-inch floppy disk at the time. Storage capacity, initially said to be 100KB, had by launch become “no less than 85KB”,
Each cartridge could hold no more than 50 files, and information had to be read into memory, changed, the original erased and the new version written onto the tape. There was no way to modify the files directly, a consequence of the driveʼs lack of true random access.
Like all media based on very narrow, thin magnetic tape, the Microdrives accumulated particles of the magnetic oxide material, a problem exacerbated by the need to pull the 2mm-wide tape out of the centre of the storage reel...
Even Sinclair, in the Microdrive manual, had to admit: “Microdrive cartridges will not last forever, and will eventually need to be replaced. The symptom of an ageing cartridge is that the computer will take longer and longer to find a program or file before loading it....
Η ΣΩΤΗΡΙΑ !! (a.k.a.: βγάζοντας τον "ασθενή" απο τη μιζέρια του με τον σωστό τρόπο: δίνοντας τέλος στο πρόβλημα/καρκίνωμα"Clive rushed the Microdrive into production too soon, and the variability of the drive heads and the tapes meant reliability was quite spotty."
...when Amstrad acquired the ailing company in 1986 for £5 million, it formally knocked the computer and the Microdrive platform on the head. (...) So out went the controversial Microdrive.
Πανο αν εννοεις τον ZX παει και ερχεται - αν παλι εννοεις το συγκεκριμενο κασσετοφωνακι που αποτελεσε τη μεγαλυτερη απατη στην ιστορια των μεσων αποθηκευσης, μαλλον πλακιτσα κανεις.για το λατρεμενο μασινι του Θειου
Σε αυτό το σημείο, πρέπει να άνοιξες την σαμπάνια!!!!Η ΣΩΤΗΡΙΑ !! (a.k.a.: βγάζοντας τον "ασθενή" απο τη μιζέρια του με τον σωστό τρόπο: δίνοντας τέλος στο πρόβλημα/καρκίνωμα )
...when Amstrad acquired the ailing company in 1986 for £5 million, it formally knocked the computer and the Microdrive platform on the head. (...) So out went the controversial Microdrive.
Xαχαχά !! Δεν θυμάμαι αν είχα ανοίξει σαμπάνια, αλλά έτσι κι αλλιώς μία ευεξία την είχα εκείνη την περίοδο. (άλλωστε και μόνο το όνομα "Αmstrad", είναι μεθυστικόCaptain Kal είπε:Σε αυτό το σημείο, πρέπει να άνοιξες την σαμπάνια!!!!
Γι' αυτό σε πάω. Επειδή πάνω απ' όλα είσαι *ρεαλιστής*.Wally είπε:Αμστρανταιοι,Κομοντοραιοι,Αταραιοι που χρειαζοντουσαν 25 λεπτα για να φορτωσουν απο κασετα...