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[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

My friend's dad has a CNC machine that requires floppy disks to load the design patterns. He's worried that a mechanical failure of the disk drive will eventually be the end of it, rather than the machine itself being obsolete. It's been going strong for almost 40 years now.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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 10 months ago

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

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