<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>1. Yes there are USB floppy external drives, and there are USB to SATA / IDE / SCSI connectors</div><div>2. The following links aren't a recommendation, just the first things I found based on what I know from Amazon / Local vendors in the US</div><div><br></div><div>Floppy USB external drive</div><div><a href="https://ksp.co.il/web/item/8572">https://ksp.co.il/web/item/8572</a></div><div><br></div><div>For the HDD if it is SATA (doubt it) there are docking stations</div><div>For IDE connections there are USB connectors but couldn't find it quickly<br></div><div><br></div><div>Yehuda<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">------------------------------<br><b><font style="color:rgb(51,51,255)" color="#000066">Yehuda Deutsch</font><font color="#333333"> | IT Developer</font></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 2:27 PM Omer Zak <<a href="mailto:w1@zak.co.il">w1@zak.co.il</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I have a friend who has a PC, which got stuck in the late 1990's. This<br>
Ethernet-less and Internet-less PC has old (circa 1997) RedHat Linux<br>
installed on it and it uses floppy disks (diskettes) for backups.<br>
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Now the floppy disk drive seems to have gone out of order and my friend<br>
will need to read his diskettes in a modern PC as well as transfer to<br>
it the contents of his hard disk (presumably connected via IDE or<br>
whatever was available in the antediluvian period before the Big Dotcom<br>
Crash of 2000.<br>
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1. Are there any floppy disk drives with USB connection for reading<br>
those diskettes?<br>
2. If one needs to temporarily connect an old hard disk (not having a<br>
modern SATA interface) to a modern PC, what solutions are there?<br>
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