[cctalk] Re: Why the Floppy Disk Just Won't Die

On 3/9/23 22:14, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Yup, my year-2000 pick and place machine had a 3.5" floppy drive, but I had no confidence that any old disks would be workable, and I had no other machines with drives for that.  So, I got one of those floppy emulators that takes a USB thumb drive and emulates a bunch of 1.44 MB floppies.  It worked great until I figured out how to get the network running on that machine.  (It runs Win 95 and needs it because user programs access hardware directly. Jon