Tendak USB Floppy Disk Drive will read 3.5" Floppy Disks with 1.44mb Capacity, Can be Use for Accessing Information You Have on Floppy Disks. It Simply Connects to Your USB Port
On special from $16.99 to $10.78
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Data Transfer Rate 1 megabytes_per_second
No thanks…
Data Transfer Rate: 250 Kbits (720KB) / 500 Kbits (1.44MB)
You do understand the capacity of these things right?
That's almost an entire disk transferred in a second
You do understand the capacity of these things right?
No, I haven't upgraded yet… Still using 360K 5.25" floppies.
I actually want a reader for those.
Have a couple great dos games on those..
Need to try 4d boxing again
3M DS DD?
They are not called floppies, but wobblies.
@cameldownunder: Actually those are the real floppies. The hard shell ones should be called stiffies, but that term never caught on.
@greenpossum: Before Marketing got involved techy names were great. Bits, bytes, nibbles, 5 1/2 floppy's.
@Salmando: shelling 4d boxing was the bomb! Making your own boxer, training him, and then throwing those haymakers
That's pretty fast for a FDD. If you happen to have something you need to retrieve from a floppy disk then this is probably your best option, as, even if you could find a floppy disk drive, you wouldn't have an IDE port to plug it into.
you wouldn't have an IDE port to plug it into.
My Pentium III has a few spare ones.
I thought your computer has vaccum valves!
Floppy drives plug into their own port not IDE.
It's been too many years since I used one. I had a strange feeling that it wasn't IDE, but couldn't remember exactly.
yes.. Simpsons screen saver lol.. its a bit blood thirsty.. still have an old computer, I should get the data off the fd
What’s a floppy disk?
It's like when you leave a Blu-ray in the sun.
It's when a urologist with a lisp tells you that you have erectile dysfunction.
I beg your pardon?
They said It's when a urologist with a lisp tells you that you have erectile dysfunction.
As long as he isnt dyslexic
I can refer you to an audiologist. ;)
A disk that is not hard
Floppy disks? Is it 1995? :)
There was a joke that Windows 95 meant that it came on that many floppies.
I remember downloading windows XP (640mb ish) on my laptop, then needing to transfer it to cd, I had to split the file into 600 pieces and transfer it to desktop which could write to CDs.
Wasn't fun
Laplink FTW!!!
interlnk and intersvr
Ethernet was overwhelmingly used by the time XP came out.
Why didn't you take the laptop's hard disk out then connect it to your desktop?
It was the year 2000, I was.. 12 I guess. The laptop cost $3500, and had a 700hz Celeron, 32mb ram, and a 5.75gb HDD. I want ready to pull it apart with hope it'll connect to an even older and more underpowered desktop
Laptop HDDs used to use their own connector that nobody had cables or adaptors for.
These have been around since the middle ages for a buck or three
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/NEW-HOT-IDE-2-5-to-3-5-inch-Lapt…
@bm: eh, I disagree that you could easily get those kind of things cheap direct from china back in late 90s early 00s.
Remember dealextreme only becoming popular late 00s. (gmail says my first order was 2008.)
Wow, who's using these?
According the the description, the military.
Probably the North Korean military though.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36385839
The Government Accountability Office said the Pentagon was one of several departments where "legacy systems" urgently needed to be replaced.
The report said taxpayers spent $61bn (£41bn) a year on maintaining ageing technologies.
It said that was three times more than the investment on modern IT systems.
The report said that the Department of Defence systems that co-ordinated intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear bombers and tanker support aircraft "runs on an IBM Series-1 Computer - a 1970s computing system - and uses eight-inch floppy disks".
i hope we dont go to nuclear war … we'd be the last to shoot.
I’ve got a few 8” floppies lying around. Looks like I’ve found a buyer!
This is quite an achievement, 8-inch floppy disks went obsolete in 1978. Pray that you don't get a fingerprint on the missile launch system.
Retro gamers. Its growing in popularity. Although you can get most systems to run CD's or even USB disks, you first need to install from a floppy disc.
you first need to
installdownload it.
Download?! meh… this would spoil the whole retro gaming thing lol
Only one person needs a working physical drive to create the image from it, then you just mount it virtually.
I think you mistunderstand. I'm talking about people that buy physical computers from the 90's or earlier, and install dos onto them. They're not interested in running things virtually.
i can dig up my jolly rogers cookbook in .txt file and my old school assignments, also in .txt format. Do cheetahs still exist?
I remember typing the lyrics to 'wonderwall' (into notepad), saving it to disk, then taking it to the neighbours place to print on a dot matrix.
Ahh pre-google life. nostalgic.
This USB Floppy Disk will help you rouse old memory from old floppies
Certainly would bring back memories. I fondly remember the sound it would make if it tried to read a risk which wasn't inserted. Bit like an upset R2D2.
I remember holding one, clicking the protective metal thing back and forth while the other one took minutes to fill.
Then trying to delete the contents only to find I've also clicked the little disk lock thing.
Good times
What is this "floppy" thing you write about?
😒
I'm just tired, that's all…
Woah, is this some new secret hidden military technology which has just been unveiled/s
Do they have it in USB 3.1 or thunderbolt? USB 2.0 is too slow for 1.44mb transfers.
…USB?
Hmmm… memories. I think about 15 years since I last used a floppy
How'd you get it in?
I think there's a Commission you're supposed to report that to.
Remember folks its not 1.44mb its 1.38mb ;)
Or on an Amiga it's 1.76MB
Only if double sided HD
Not after you've PKZIPped that shit up!
dm01 Yes.. done this a few times at work to bring home stuff [windows progs] downloaded on the bosses dial up.
Creating a Spanned Archive
You can save a ZIP file to multiple diskettes if it is too large to fit on a single one. This
is called disk spanning. PKZIP prompts you to insert diskettes (or other media) as
they are needed.
Depending on the size of the ZIP file, it may be necessary for PKZIP to save the file
on multiple diskettes. This process is called "spanning".
To create a spanned archive:
1. Insert a diskette (or other appropriate medium) into its drive.
2. Type your PKZIP command, and press ENTER. Make sure to specify the drive
letter or path that corresponds to your destination drive. A sample command line
appears below:
pkzipc -add -span a:\test.zip *.doc
Oh lordy who is still using this lol
aaaahhh !
Memories..
That pack of 10 floppies …
The green light that came on …
The whirring/clicking sound …
The write-protect notch ….
Ahhh those memories: "Cload" and then press the play button on my tape player.
Kids these days don’t know what they’re missing…
Bring back the dial tone of the modem connecting to 56k internet and we’re set!
got any optical disk external enclosures?
OP, what about 8" 256kB drives, do they have any of those? ;)
Any punch card readers? I need to load up some retro games that I have on punch cards.
where can i buy some floppy disks?
eBay
My local Vinnies has a 10 pack of 3.5”.
Somewhere in my home, I still have Windows 3.1 and Office XX - in my memory around 40 disks.
My Windows 95 came on floppy disks, they were an off white colour, I think it was Windows 95a, later getting Windows 95c and all its major upgrades, such as USB.
This one's cheaper if you don't have Prime: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/New-1-44MB-USB-External-Floppy-D…
Thank you.
I'll buy it if it comes with a free dinosaur egg.
Why is this more than $5?
If you've kept your floppy discs safe for this long then I don't reckon you'd want to risk putting them in a $5 reader. I'll wait for a deal on a Xaiomi model.
Floppies are really a very stable technology - a reader would have to be designed to destroy them to be able to do so.
They're a solid lump of plastic with a data ribbon - very simple.
I think it's time we upgraded to the SuperDisk LS-240 and the 240 MB floppy drive.
Surely the Panasonic 2Mb disk is enough?
Bought one!! Been after one for a while.
Thanks OP :)
Don't forget with an OTG cable you can hook these up to an android smart phone….because…..
Price in title please :)