July 1983 · Peripheral
Sinclair ZX Microdrive (1983)
A cheap tape-loop cartridge drive for the ZX Spectrum and QL.
Launched at 49.95 pounds with about 85 KB per cartridge and a 15 KB/s transfer rate, much faster than cassette. Reliability was poor.
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Facts
- Date
- July 1983
- Kind
- Peripheral: Storage drive
- Maker or publisher
- Sinclair Research
- Platforms
- Sinclair Spectrum
- Capacity
- ~85 KB
- Speed
- 15 KB/s
- Loop
- ~8 s
- Connection
- ZX Interface 1
- Works with
- Sinclair Spectrum
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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