[Novalug] USB floppy?

[The Doctor]

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On 04/23/2012 08:00 PM, Nick Danger wrote:

> Now onto the floppies. Yeah, no kidding. MSDos5 floppies. Frys has
> a USB 3.5" floppy drive for all of $20. Not a huge investment to
> get her old data off if she really wants it. Neither my desktop nor
> laptop have a 3.5" drive anymore. But, I don't want to find out I
> have as much luck with that as I did with the old parallel port
> zip. (I can't even find the ppa driver anymore, does it even exist
> in the kernel?!)

A friend loaned me a USB floppy drive a few years ago.  I plugged it
in and immediately started using it to copy files off of floppies onto
the hard drive.  Granted, I was backing up old .qwk bundles from my
BBS days, but I didn't have to do anything special to get the drive to
work.

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