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3.5" USB 2.0 Floppy Disk Drive for Windows 7 8 XP Vista Mac $13.49 + Post (Free with Prime/ $49 Spend) @ TendakDirect Amazon

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Tendak on amazon.com.au has Tendak 3.5" USB 2.0 Disk Drive Portable External 1.44 MB 720 KB FDD Floppy Diskette Drive for PC Windows 7 8 Windows XP Vista Mac (Black) on sale for $13.49 (Original Price:$17.99) with code: TENDAKDRIVE

Features:

USB FLOPPY DISK DRIVE - 3.5" USB External floppy disk reader, Reads 3.5" Floppy Disks with 720 KB/1.44 MB Capacity.

EASY TO USE - Plug and play, no extra driver required, just plug it into usb connector directly, it will automatically install driver by itself, with interference preventer. Powered directly from the USB port, no external power required.USB 1.1/2.0 is compatible.

COMPATIBILITY - Compatible with Windows 98/ SE /ME / 2000 / XP / Vista/Win 7/Win 8 Notebook, PC, Desktop, for Mac, Dell, Acer, Sony, HP etc.

RECALL YOUR MEMORY - This USB Floppy Disk will help you rouse old memory from old floppies. Save and transfer all those old pictures,video, documents that you haven't see for ages. It was a life saver which will recover the old data and files on the floppies

WIDELY USED - Use for industrial machines, aviation tech, ATMS, military and more fields. You can write or transfer data introduced to your industrial machines, ATMS or other device through a floppy drive, convenience for your production

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  • GG57 on 15/04/2019 - 12:48
    +10

    Does someone get the feeling that they have been sitting on these for a few decades, waiting for the right moment to release back to the market?

    • macrocephalic on 15/04/2019 - 13:09
      +1

      A decade ago these things were worth significantly more. I know because I used to use one at work. Back then plenty of PC's didn't boot from USB flash media, so floppy boot disks were still really useful as a tech tool.

      • Sage on 15/04/2019 - 13:16
        -3

        In 2009? Floppy discs only hold 1.44mb.
        Surely those computers had optical drives?

        • [Deactivated] on 15/04/2019 - 15:25

          Get out.

        • AlmightyBeing on 15/04/2019 - 17:07
          +1

          Why is this down voted? 2009 was well past floppy disk era. If you were using floppy disks 10 years ago then happy 80th birthday!

        • macrocephalic on 15/04/2019 - 17:28

          Because optical disks are single write (yes, you could get rewritable optical media, but they were never designed to be read-write, just multi use read only).

          We had boot disks which would run stateful batches, reboot and continue, etc. You can't do that with optical media.

      • Jack D Price on 15/04/2019 - 13:37

        $30-$40? I had one too

  • niish150887 on 15/04/2019 - 12:51

    Not sure if its worth it .. but all i have is in my floppy disks are wallpapers and screensavers of Sportsperson which i saved them as a kid .. Would take approx 5 min to download one wallpaper … Memories !

    • ow on 15/04/2019 - 13:23
      +2

      Dont forget the malicious virus or two that might have slipped in

      • macrocephalic on 15/04/2019 - 17:30
        -1

        It's unlikely that they would be able to replicate in current OS's. Have you noticed that viruses have largely disappeared - and have been replaced by malware where the browser is the attack vector?

    • boomramada on 15/04/2019 - 13:40
      -2

      That was nothing, I got a better story, When I was in uni, I saw this guy downloading porn pic, one at a time and save it into a floppy disk in a computer lab.
      Those days I had a CD burner and I felt like making one for him, so he can knock himself for year :)

      • kahn on 15/04/2019 - 19:22
        +1

        Let me guess…that guy is now your husband.

    • astrotrain on 15/04/2019 - 13:43

      "sportspersons" you say? righto.

      • PorkHunt on 15/04/2019 - 14:36
        +1

        She’s looking mighty sporty…

        • macrocephalic on 15/04/2019 - 17:31
          +1

          Like she's up for a game of hide the sausage?

  • Robc on 15/04/2019 - 12:51
    +1

    Save and transfer all those old pictures, video… Yeah, nope. This is probably only any use for industrial applications, where you have some junk legacy stuff still running on Windows 98.

  • Gotham15 on 15/04/2019 - 12:52
    +2

    What year is it?

  • deelaroo on 15/04/2019 - 12:55

    Good price if this is something you need.

  • puka on 15/04/2019 - 13:02

    cheaper on ebay?
    $10.95 inc postage
    https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Portable-USB-Floppy-Disk-Drive-E…

    • leTintin on 15/04/2019 - 13:06

      I can't believe how many people still buying them - one or more a day

    • Lukian on 15/04/2019 - 13:07

      I dunno, the one on Amazon looks slimmer!

    • macrocephalic on 15/04/2019 - 13:07

      Not the exact same product, but probably good enough for what most people need a floppy drive for now (getting stuff off long forgotten media).

  • xenoic on 15/04/2019 - 13:04
    +4

    Perfect, I got a floppy disk that I need to retrieve my 'images' from the 1992.

    • deelaroo on 15/04/2019 - 13:22
      +7

      folder named nrop

      • rodericb on 15/04/2019 - 14:03

        Wow there was Minecraft nrop before Minecraft was invented!

  • alz on 15/04/2019 - 13:05
    -3

    I remember when Windows ME was the shiznit. Was around 13 or 14 and it was good times back then.

    • Seedy seed on 15/04/2019 - 13:11
      +13

      Me was never considered that… It went 98, xp, 7 10. All the rest are ugly cousins

      • Sage on 15/04/2019 - 13:20

        Rose tinted glasses.

        • ashanrath on 15/04/2019 - 16:34

          As someone who was excited to use ME, (profanity) no it was terrible.

      • FireRunner on 15/04/2019 - 13:38

        I thought Windows Vista was alright.

        • ashanrath on 15/04/2019 - 18:01
          +1

          Vista suffered from bloating and performance issues at release. That said, with the final service pack it was much more like 7.

      • yanman on 15/04/2019 - 14:33
        +1

        98 SE

      • ashanrath on 15/04/2019 - 16:34
        +1

        2000 was reasonably well regarded in the commercial world from memory.

        • macrocephalic on 15/04/2019 - 17:33

          Yes, win2k worked quite well at the time. If I'm not mistaken XP was built on win2k when they realised that they needed to move the retail OS over to NT.

  • Pcoder on 15/04/2019 - 13:10
    +1

    For people playing at home, just look at what you can do. Just imagine the possibilities!

    https://youtu.be/iT1l8Dcjb1Y

    • Joey Jo Jo on 15/04/2019 - 13:25

      i Phones should be able to do this even better, yeah?

  • RMBC on 15/04/2019 - 13:14

    I'm genuinely curious as to what someone would need one for these days

    • outlander on 15/04/2019 - 13:15
      +1

      Retro gaming. For many 486 machines, they can't boot directly from the CD drive. You need a floppy

      • RMBC on 15/04/2019 - 13:19

        Interesting. Wouldn't an emulator be easier though?

      • deelaroo on 15/04/2019 - 13:23
        +4

        486 boot from USB floppy?

        • outlander on 15/04/2019 - 14:10
          +1

          No, 486 boot from regular floppy. But while its possible to get a hold of blank floppy discs today, making a bootable floppy is hard on modern machines that are lucky to have a cd drive in them.

    • Banj0 on 15/04/2019 - 13:53

      Vintage audio gear comes to mind too…old keyboards, synths, drum and midi machines and whatnot, which might still be useful (or classic). I have a keyboard at home with a floppy drive in it (and no other way of communicating other than a midi input) - I could use this to transfer midi tracks to it if I wanted.

    • rodericb on 15/04/2019 - 14:04
      +1

      Vital infrastructure is probably running off floppy disk….

    • [Deactivated] on 15/04/2019 - 15:27

      Same as a what people do with a PS1 classic, nothing.

  • e4c5 on 15/04/2019 - 13:14

    Cool. Finally found a use for my disk cleaner!

  • jace88 on 15/04/2019 - 13:16
    +2

    This reminds me of a video I saw on Youtube where they played old DOS games on a 3.5" floppy drive connected to a USB adaptor on their Android phone with an emulator.

  • h00tz on 15/04/2019 - 13:41

    I got a similar one of these a few years back to check a bunch of old floppies I had lying around, using an old PC that was still running XP. Unfortunately none of the floppies could be read, as I guess they were past their use-by date.

    • YellowDieselGolf on 15/04/2019 - 14:00

      Sounds about normal for floppy disks, h00tz. Even when they were new they were terribly unreliable.

    • outlander on 15/04/2019 - 14:13
      -1

      Was probably the floppy drive then. They went bad pretty regularly in the past, and if you tried to read a disc in them it would often lead to the partition being deleted.. giving you the common message prompt

      The disk in drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now?

      Cue screaming.

  • edshays on 15/04/2019 - 14:22

    With today's jpeg compression, a plethora of memes can be stored on a 1.44mb drive.

  • zhuntai on 15/04/2019 - 14:24

    Geez… get with the times. I hope someone makes a USB3.1 variant haha.

    Hahaha.. I would like to be able to transfer the entire disk contents in <3ms… and physically destroy the disk at the same time!

  • Other on 15/04/2019 - 14:50

    Upvoted Deal.

    Good for nuclear weapons - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36385839

    • bargaino on 15/04/2019 - 15:27

      Those are 8 inch discs. You'd have to did them in half to fit in this drive.

  • MojoMiwo on 15/04/2019 - 15:03

    What is it used for?

  • Trishool on 15/04/2019 - 15:14

    Wasn't April Fools like 2 weeks ago?

  • quiteguy on 15/04/2019 - 16:08

    Only if it gets identified as A:

    • macrocephalic on 15/04/2019 - 17:37
      +1

      Or B:.

      Interestingly, I installed a bunch of drives into my PC recently and figured that, in 2018/2019 there was no reason not to start assigning drive letters starting from A. I was wrong. Some applications still don't like reading and writing from a hard drive assigned to A:.

  • davemac on 15/04/2019 - 17:41
    +1

    Who remembers Zip drives? anyone?

    • Cunning Linguist on 15/04/2019 - 20:34

      only the rich kids had those

      • [Deactivated] on 15/04/2019 - 22:21

        Mine cost $199 back in the day…

    • [Deactivated] on 15/04/2019 - 22:21

      Loved my Zip.

  • asa79 on 15/04/2019 - 18:12

    because you can copy from a floppy at USB 2 speed

  • paulaus on 15/04/2019 - 22:09

    Ahh wonder if i can get my Leather Goddesses of Phobos to run.

  • [Deactivated] on 15/04/2019 - 22:22

    Price match at…forget about it…

  • mikey31 on 16/04/2019 - 00:51

    Awesome, can buy one so I can use the bunch of floppy disks I found in the cupboard at work!

  • rasserie on 16/04/2019 - 13:28

    i split a song into 3 floppys back in the days

  • Its4me on 16/04/2019 - 20:18

    What about all my 5.25" floppies?

  • xenoic on 16/04/2019 - 22:27

    Try asking your colleague to check out your 3" floppy and you'll gonna go straight to HR

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