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General discussion (archive)Are there any internal USB Floppy drives?(22 posts)solved(22 posts)solved
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Posted December 03, 2014
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DreamedArtist: I am a big fan of the floppy disc era and wish they had them still out with flash capacities like usb drives, COMPANIES GET ON THAT I KNOW FLASH CAN BE THIN! DO IT.
Wait, are you talking about basically SD cards that look and work like floppy disks?
Posted December 03, 2014
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DreamedArtist: I am a big fan of the floppy disc era and wish they had them still out with flash capacities like usb drives, COMPANIES GET ON THAT I KNOW FLASH CAN BE THIN! DO IT.
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Exoanthrope: Wait, are you talking about basically SD cards that look and work like floppy disks?
YES :3 I never seen one yet like a floppy but with usb functionalities unless I am blind XP

so original floppy style but with pins on the bottom and a floppy drive that can read it DIGITAL FLOPPY! OMG YES IDEAS I HAVE ARE OFF THE ROOF TODAY :D
Post edited December 03, 2014 by DreamedArtist
Posted December 03, 2014
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Exoanthrope: Yeah, that video gives me motion sickness, but I'm still curious to try it. But I just realised the floppy part still wouldn't connect to the USB header on the motherboard, I would have to thread it out the back to plug into a regular USB port, and I'm not sure if the cord would be long enough for my full size tower...
The raw USB port as he had gotten wouldn't work, however that doesn't mean you can't still do it. You can snip the USB end off, then take the 6-8 wires and give them little connectors that you could then plug into your motherboard... Assuming they are using pins like i'm thinking of...

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Posted December 03, 2014
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Exoanthrope: Wait, are you talking about basically SD cards that look and work like floppy disks?
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DreamedArtist: YES :3 I never seen one yet like a floppy but with usb functionalities unless I am blind XP

so original floppy style but with pins on the bottom and a floppy drive that can read it DIGITAL FLOPPY! OMG YES IDEAS I HAVE ARE OFF THE ROOF TODAY :D
You know what, in these days where retro pixel games and such are making a comeback, it wouldn't surprise me if something like this really got developed. XD

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rtcvb32: The raw USB port as he had gotten wouldn't work, however that doesn't mean you can't still do it. You can snip the USB end off, then take the 6-8 wires and give them little connectors that you could then plug into your motherboard... Assuming they are using pins like i'm thinking of...
I feel like that's getting a little too much work for a side project, but I think it would be a fun learning experience if nothing else. I'm not really knowledgeable in working with hardware, I've only built my first computer a few years ago.
Post edited December 03, 2014 by Exoanthrope
Posted December 03, 2014
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KoreaBeat: I don't understand what he did in the video.... didn't he just turn an internal drive into an external drive? What was the point?
Perhaps to make everyone trying to watch it nauseous?
Posted December 03, 2014
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Exoanthrope: I feel like that's getting a little too much work for a side project, but I think it would be a fun learning experience if nothing else. I'm not really knowledgeable in working with hardware, I've only built my first computer a few years ago.
Not to worry, i'm sure there's a premade converter to go to the pins from a USB port to keep you from having to do that and possibly ruining the cable. Although... If there's a chip that handles the communication in the plug which the OS would recognize, that would be stripped out... If it's on the other end with the connector ribbon to the floppy drive, then it would be unnoticed. Hmmm....

Trying to look for one but sites are taking a long time to reply for some reason.
Posted December 03, 2014
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yogsloth: Pssshshssht.

Zip disks or nothing for me.
I used to love them... until I was hit by the infamous "click of death".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death#Iomega_Zip_drives

Fortunately I had most of the stuff also elsewhere.

As for diskettes, I couldn't believe that when I found some near 20 years old diskettes from the storage the other day, the few I tried were still fully readable. I found there some personal data and files I hadn't copied to safety earlier for some reason (sentimental value), it was a good time to do that as I happened to have a salvaged floppy disk drive in use as well. Now they are on several hard disks.

Pretty surprising, considering I have many much younger CD-R discs which have become unreadable already.
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