On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 9:13 PM Mike Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know about outer space but that was a fairly popular medium > for distributing audio files including computer programs; they were > real grooved audio disks similar but smaller than a 45 RPM record but > on a thin flexible medium similar to the cookie in a 5 1/4" diskette. > [...] I think that's the 'floppy ROM' that Walt is > talking about. What! That's extraordinary. I had presumed "floppy ROM" was just an old Altair term for a ROM one could use to replace a floppy drive (a ROM cartridge). How well did "Floppy ROMs" work? Did they run at 16⅔ RPM, like Voyager's Golden Disk to maximize length? I wonder how common it was to press records (vinyl or otherwise) with executable code. —b9 P.S. Wasn't there an expansion for the Tandy 200 that added a ROM cartridge port (as well as allowing switching between ROMs)?
