Editing Exatron Stringy Floppy (section)

== Format ==

There is no single catalog of files; to load a specific file the drive searches the entire tape, briefly stopping to read the header of each found file. The tape loop only moves in one direction, so a file that starts behind the current location cannot be read until the drive searches the entire loop for it. The device is capable of reading and writing [[random access]] data files (unlike a [[datacassette]]). If a record being sought has been overshot, the drive advances the tape until it loops around to the beginning and continues seeking from there.{{r|halfhill198307}}

According to ''Embedded Systems'' magazine, the Exatron Stringy Floppy uses [[Manchester code|Manchester encoding]], achieving 14K read-write speeds and the code controlling the device was developed by [[Li-Chen Wang]], who also wrote a [[Tiny BASIC]], the basis for the [[Level I BASIC|TRS-80 Model I Level I BASIC]].