24 Jan
2023
24 Jan
'23
9:25 p.m.
On Tue, 24 Jan 2023, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
[1] I think I have a USB floppy drive somewhere, but
it'll be a
'1.44Mbyte' [2] 3.5" thing. A type of drive conspiculously absent on
my classic machines.
The first NEC external 3.5" USB drive (UF0001) cabled USB into a normal
765 inside the drive case, connected to a normal 1.4M 3.5" drive!
If you can find one of THOSE, . . .
[2] In quotes becuase it is, of course, nothing of the
sort. Well, not
unless you believe a megabyte is 1000*1024 bytes.
But it is close enough to call it a "1.4M" drive (instead of 1.44)