Chr$ wrote: staccato spins [...] the slow comforting dimming of the LED

yes I agree.
We can say that Microdrive is a digital media with an analogical taste. Probably in our super-digitized life there is still the desire for something analogical

I have never used the Microdrives as main storage since 1987. Well, I knew you're not a great microdrive enthusiast :) It has also been said, there is no floppy disk software, I wonder why In my opinion there is some confusion: people see many zipped archives and don't think they may contain floppy...

bwinkel67 wrote: microdrives are this pretty unique device. [...] vDrive, it's a pretty simple medium substitute that just plugs in, works, doesn't take up extra memory

Yes, this is perfectly true.

Thanks!

Some thoughts: - I have 3 original ZX PSUs, and no one outputs less than 9V (their voltages vary from 10,5 to 12V when disconnected, and at least 9V when connected to Spectrum). - till now I haven't found yet a 7805 regulator which provides less than 5V (both in QLs and ZXs). But probably I'm lucky,...

That's interesting. Unfortunately the group is private

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After years of neglect and criticism (both right and unfair), the arrival of Vdrive seems to have turn the tables somehow. Perhaps the interest in microdrive media wasn't as dead as it seemed. People talk about the Vdrive, they look for it, make videos, buy it… I honestly didn't expect it, but it se...

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