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Originally Posted by Quoth
What's a floppy?
I actually have some here*, but I can imagine users that have never seen or used one. I think Apple was first without them.
[* I think the 8″ are gone, but there are 5.25″, 3.5″ and 3″ still here and even a couple of tower PCs in attic with Linux and able to manage almost anything except Apple II and ACT Sirius 1/Victor 9000. Not sure about Amiga. A USB Floppy drive can only read standard DOS FAT12, no CP/M, Amstrad or Amiga etc. A couple of last Mobos ever with floppy controllers, which only need dumb cables for 8″, 5.25″ and 3″ drives, but I gave away the last 8″ drive about 10 years ago.]
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I think I found an old ZIP drive (100M) I had not recycled. I tossed all the disks years ago.
You are right! Only an ancient Dell has internal floppy support . Never tried to read a non- FAT standard floppy on a USB Floppy