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Still got a floppy drive? Here's a solution for when 1.44MB isn't enough

David O'Rourke

I still have a machine with a 3.5in floppy drive, and I still use it regularly.

Admittedly for somewhat esoteric reasons.

It's the only PC I have left with a parallel printer port, necessary for a piece of hand-built data gathering hardware. Unfortunately that PC also has a broken IO subsystem, and no Ethernet, so the only sensible way of getting the data back off the machine again is via floppy.

Still it's a hobby isn't it

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