Comments on: An Exatron Stringy Floppy Primer

By: Ghislain

Ghislain — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:18:50 +0000

Waw! Vraiment, j’ai retrouvé mon premier ordinateur avec ce fabuleux Exatron.
Waw! With your ESf compliant emulator, I retrived my first faboulous computer. You need to know that it was very difficult to receive all this sort of material here in belgium. And when it was available, it costed twice the price you paid in USA. But I found this Exatron Stringy Floppy, here in only one store in Ghent. and it changed totally this trs80. It gave pleasure never known before with cassette. Great work!

By: Dusty Miller

Dusty Miller — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:51:50 +0000

Thanks for your efforts in upgrading the emulator Matthew. A brilliant job! I’ll have another try and see if I can get the UK’s equivalent to the SF, the Aculab Floppy Tape, which I “won” on ebay, working, and then attempt to extract the ROM image!

I’ve published details of you upgrade on the website

Once again Matthew, WELL DONE.

By: Terry Stewart

Terry Stewart — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:33:48 +0000

The Exatron Stringy Floppy was my next step after cassette but before disk drives for my System 80/Video Genie/PMC 80 (TRS80 I clone). It was a great step up.

I’ve got the 1980 manual here, which I’m considering scanning and uploading to my site. It’s an interesting document in the folksy, non-commercial way it’s presented. Included on a back is an invitation to user group meetings and free coffee. On the inside front page is a note saying that all content of the manual is public domain and copying is encouraged! It’s a far cry from the strictly commercial staus of computing nowdays. It harks back to the gentler era of enthusiasts sharing knowledge.

Thankfully this is something that still can be found in web communities.

By: tim

tim — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:24:17 +0000

Great job on the ESF refresher. Man that takes me back. Used the ESF with my TRS-80 model 1 every day til I moved to the PC.