Homebrew Drum Computer (magnetic heads)

Tony Duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Thu Dec 20 14:35:51 CST 2007


> > I presume somebody's mentioned Exidy already? (hey, you didn't specify
> > that the cartridges had to have the correct guts...)
> 
> Did you perhaps mean Exatron as in "stringy floppy"?  Or am I showing 
> my age again?

I thought so too,. at first. And then I rememebrs something I've posted 
often enough. The Exidy Sorceror ROM cartridges were actually 8-track 
tape housings (the sort of thing you used to stick in your car tape 
player) with the tape and spools removded, some bits of the hosing cut 
away, and a PCB inside containing the ROMs. The PCB had edge fingers to 
connect it to the rest of the machine, accssible through the front side 
of the carttridge.

-tony




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