• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    They make USB peripheral floppy drives now for like $15. Its like the shittiest thumb drive ever.

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      17 days ago

      Fun fact: As of El Capitan from 10-ish years ago, Macs can no longer read floppies. They removed drivers from the kernel so some people upgraded and couldn’t read their disks anymore.

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      17 days ago

      I got for for a 486SX project! They’re pretty sweet. push buttons on the front to switch between 99 virtual floppies. I had forgotten just how much you can’t do on 3.1, 95 and 98 without a standard floppy drive available.