Editing Exatron Stringy Floppy (section)

== Use and distribution ==

The Exatron drive was initially used in the [[Prophet-10]] music synthesizer and was later replaced with a micro-cassette drive from Braemar, reportedly due to unreliability and poor mutual compatibility of the former.<ref name="Reid 1999">{{cite web|url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar99/articles/retroprophet.htm|title=Sequential Circuits&nbsp;– Prophet Synthesizers 5 & 10 (Retro)|last=Reid|first=Gordon|date=March 1999|work=[[Sound on Sound]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203065241/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar99/articles/retroprophet.htm|archive-date=3 February 2016|accessdate=January 23, 2015}}</ref>

Cartridges, or "wafers", were available in tape lengths ranging from {{Convert|5 to 75|ft|m}}.{{r|barry19810831}} Known data capacities/tape length are: 4&nbsp;kB/5 feet, 16&nbsp;kB/20 feet, 48&nbsp;kB/50 feet, and 64&nbsp;kB/75 feet.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Exatron Stringy Floppy|first=Matthew |last=Reed |url=http://www.trs-80.org/exatron-stringy-floppy/|accessdate=23 March 2014}}</ref> One complete cycle through a {{Convert|20|ft|m|adj=on}} tape takes 55 to 65 seconds, depending on the number of files it contains.{{r|halfhill198307}}