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Originally Posted by SiriusHardware
As if mere unreliability wasn't bothersome enough, another great thing that the Spectrum / Microdrive combo would sometimes do was to crash just at the point where the Microdrive was recording something. If you were unlucky, it would erase the entire contents of the cartridge before you had time to realise what was happening.
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Arrgh
I'd forgotten about that, but you're right, that was also another great feature.
I always assumed the crash was because the Z80 jumped into machine code in the ROM on the Interface 1, and if any of the edge-connector pins waggled, it started executing rubbish (aka as going into hyper-space) with the microdrive hardware in record mode.