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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look for usb floppy emulators, you can have the floppy images in a usb flash drive. No moving parts or need to find expensive floppies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If this thing relies on floppy, I don't imagine it would be USB compatible

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's reverse: you get a board that has a floppy interface on one side and a USB socket on the other. You plug in a USB drive and the board uses a file on the drive as the floppy disk, pretending to be a floppy Drive connected to the interface. It's a little less convenient because you have to deal with disk images but it works without moving parts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I see, like those car radio cassette to aux cable modules