Floppy disks at 2021?!
Uri Bruck
uri at bruck.co.il
Fri Dec 24 18:06:44 IST 2021
Floppies like these?
https://fibersiv.net/threads/pieceinfo.html
On 22.12.2021 21:27, Omer Zak 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!
>
> --- Omer Zak
>
>
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Thanks,
Uri
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