My favorite fictional-sounding-but-real storage device is the Stringy Floppy!
When I hung out at Radio Shack after school to play with the TRS-80's, some guy came by and showed his off, and I was in awe, and so jealous at how fast it was! I was sure that Stringy Floppies were the wave of the future. You didn't need to rewind them like tapes, because they wound back around!!!
> You didn't need to rewind them like tapes, because they wound back around!!!
You physically can't because they spool from the center like an 8-track tape. Probably why they didn't catch on rewinding lets you treat it more like a really slow hard drive.
When I hung out at Radio Shack after school to play with the TRS-80's, some guy came by and showed his off, and I was in awe, and so jealous at how fast it was! I was sure that Stringy Floppies were the wave of the future. You didn't need to rewind them like tapes, because they wound back around!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exatron_Stringy_Floppy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBfNy021K2Q
Then there was the Transputer!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer