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1984, Alison Maguire, interviewed in SINCLAIR talks... (in Crash magazine, issue 3, April 1984)
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.
1986, African Energy Programme (Commonwealth Science Council), Renewable energy development in Africa (volume 2, page 161)
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.
1989 June, Phil South, “Rage Hard”, in Your Sinclair, archived from the original on 10 March 2012:
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.
