Sinclair ZX Microdrive Story

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Infinite loop: the Sinclair ZX Microdrive story
The rise and fall of a ‘revolutionary’ storage technology

They would, Clive Sinclair claimed on 23 April 1982, revolutionise home computer storage. Significantly cheaper than the established 5.25-inch and emerging 3.5-inch floppy drives of the time – though not as capacious or as fast to serve up files – ‘Uncle’ Clive’s new toy would "change the face of personal computing", Sinclair Research’s advertising puffed.