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 agoYes. 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.