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bmonkey325 296 days ago | parent

These machines will survive. Beloved and curated. Simple to work on and and adapt. Revive is (legalities) aside have at least shown that a machine from this era can be modernized.

Storage is the hard part. Media is rarer and rarer each year. Parts for mechanical drives equally hard. Even cds and optical are hard to come by these days

bxparks 296 days ago
I was under the impression that mechanical floppy drives are usually replaced with floppy drive emulators which work with standard USB flash drives. A cheap 4GB flash drive emulate thousands of floppy disks, which is kinda nuts.
- bmonkey325 296 days ago
  Yes. From the 8-bit era. Definitely the case. 8–bit Floppy disks can be pretty easily. emulated. But I’m thinking about slightly later gen things like ISA cards for MFM and RLL hard drives. 1.2 and 720/1.44 floppies. I have a Lenovo usb 3.5” drive. But nothing for 1.2 mb 5.25. Maybe almost nobody does. Zip and jazz drives. Gone. Even Sata is stating to dry up.