microdrive
Noun
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Noun
microdrive (plural microdrives)
- (computing) An early computer storage system using cartridges of looped tape.
- 1984, Alison Maguire, interviewed in SINCLAIR talks... (in Crash magazine, issue 3, April 1984)
- There are lots of things that will benefit from being on a microdrive cartridge but if you release something on microdrive you're only going to sell it to people with microdrive.
- 1986, African Energy Programme (Commonwealth Science Council), Renewable energy development in Africa (volume 2, page 161)
- The Spectrum has its own inexpensive mass storage unit - the microdrive which starts at about £150 for 100k of storage, but this may not be suitable in all cases, since the storage unit may be damaged if turned on with the disc in position.
- 1989, Phil South, Rage Hard (in Your Sinclair magazine, June 1989) [https://web.archive.org/web/20120310063225/http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/ragehard0689.htm]
- Disk interfaces have been around since the year dot, as people soon realised that the microdrive was unreliable, unstable and generally rubbish for the storage of anything, useless except as a rather small beermat.
- 1984, Alison Maguire, interviewed in SINCLAIR talks... (in Crash magazine, issue 3, April 1984)
- A device for inserting microelectrodes into the brain.
- 2014, Masami Tatsuno, Analysis and Modeling of Coordinated Multi-neuronal Activity (page 23)
- The microdrive was invented so that electrodes could be lowered into the brain in order to isolate new neurons.
- 2014, Masami Tatsuno, Analysis and Modeling of Coordinated Multi-neuronal Activity (page 23)
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