microdrive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.17 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An early computer storage system using cartridges of looped tape.
noun
A device for inserting microelectrodes into the brain.
Example Sentences
- "One-inch disks typically held about 8 to 10 GB and microdrives were either 2 or 4 GB."
- "1984, Alison Maguire, interviewed in SINCLAIR talks... (in Crash magazine, issue 3, April 1984) http://www.crashonline.org.uk/03/sinclair.htm There are lots of things that will benefit from being on a microdrive cartridge but if you release something on microdrive you're only going to sell it to people with microdrive."
- "The Spectrum has its own inexpensive mass storage unit - the microdrive which starts at about £150 for 100k of storage, but this may not be suitable in all cases, since the storage unit may be damaged if turned on with the disc in position."
- "Disk interfaces have been around since the year dot, as people soon realised that the microdrive was unreliable, unstable and generally rubbish for the storage of anything, useless except as a rather small beermat."
- "The microdrive was invented so that electrodes could be lowered into the brain in order to isolate new neurons."