Floppy disks at 2021?!

[Omer Zak]

My friend, thankfully, has already progressed to the 1.44MB, 3.5"
diskettes era when the now-archeological PC was new.
No 5.25" diskettes.
No 8" diskettes.


On Fri, 2021-12-24 at 18:06 +0200, Uri Bruck wrote:
> 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?
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