It’s hard to imagine now in our post-floppy world, but in the early 1980s there were all sorts of bizarre things for computer storage that attempted to bring some of the benefits of floppy disks to those who didn’t want to shell out hundreds of dollars for a floppy disk drive. Wafertape. Microdrives. Basically all “high-speed” tape drives that used various proprietary formats instead of cassettes. Still slower than floppies, and while the drives were relatively cheap, the media wasn’t.
