Floppy disks at 2021?!

[Yehuda Deutsch]

Hi,

1. Yes there are USB floppy external drives, and there are USB to SATA /
IDE / SCSI connectors
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

Floppy USB external drive
https://ksp.co.il/web/item/8572

For the HDD if it is SATA (doubt it) there are docking stations
For IDE connections there are USB connectors but couldn't find it quickly

Yehuda

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*Yehuda Deutsch | IT Developer*


On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 2:27 PM Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:

> I have a friend who has a PC, which got stuck in the late 1990's. This
> Ethernet-less and Internet-less PC has old (circa 1997) RedHat Linux
> installed on it and it uses floppy disks (diskettes) for backups.
>
> Now the floppy disk drive seems to have gone out of order and my friend
> will need to read his diskettes in a modern PC as well as transfer to
> it the contents of his hard disk (presumably connected via IDE or
> whatever was available in the antediluvian period before the Big Dotcom
> Crash of 2000.
>
> 1. Are there any floppy disk drives with USB connection for reading
> those diskettes?
> 2. If one needs to temporarily connect an old hard disk (not having a
> modern SATA interface) to a modern PC, what solutions are there?
>
> Thanks!
>
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