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The Exatron Stringy Floppy was a continuous-loop tape drive developed by Exatron in 1978 for home computer users. The format was one of many attempts made by manufacturers to develop a new data cassette format that was smaller and more data dense than traditional data cassettes. The like other data tape formats, the ESF wafer system failed to catch on as a removable media due to a number of competing formats and inherent speed issue with tape storage, and was eventually abandoned as the cost of floppy disk storage dropped in the 1980s. Wikipedia →

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